Cristian Plop
Founder, Designer at Pulse
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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RockstarCristian Plop is a product-focused founder and designer with 12 years building high-engagement digital experiences across sports, streaming, and fintech. He turned a national-level football mindset—anticipation under pressure—into a design philosophy that shapes live events, reward systems, and retention loops at EA Sports FC, UFL, Crunchyroll and now Pulse. As Founder of Pulse he’s translating real-time fan prediction behavior into a competitive participation layer ahead of World Cup 2026, positioning the product between fantasy and betting rather than inside either. His background includes leading UX teams, design systems, and measurable product gains (notably double-digit lifts in engagement and monetization), and he pairs qualitative playtesting with telemetry to validate decisions. He also contributes to open-source payment tooling, adding modern payments support like Apple Pay/Google Pay to the widely used Active Merchant library—evidence of hands-on engineering chops beyond visual design. Based in Bucharest, he combines startup grit, product leadership, and a sports-first instinct for moment-driven interaction.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Romanian, Russian
Github Skills (7)
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
testing9
3d-secure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:310 reviews, 69 commits, 116 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Cristian primarily contributed to the `activemerchant/active_merchant` repository by adding support for various payment methods (Apple Pay, Google Pay) to the Worldpay gateway. This included modifying existing code and adding new functionalities to the `Worldpay` adapter and test files, such as adding support for network tokenization and updating 3DS fields. The user also worked on cleaning up order IDs and making code improvements.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
Heavyblade/manta_xml
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 release, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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