Deedee Lavinder
Director Of Engineering at DeeDee Lavinder
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeedee Lavinder is a Director of Engineering based in Durham, NC with 11 years of experience leading payments and platform teams at companies including GitHub, Zip Co, Elastic, and Spreedly. She blends hands-on backend work—contributing payment gateway integrations to the widely used ActiveMerchant library—with strategic leadership, having progressed through senior and interim director roles at GitHub. A frequent speaker on encryption, inclusion, and blockchain topics, she brings a public-facing voice on technical and community issues alongside day-to-day delivery. Her background founding a retail business and a degree in International Agricultural Development give her an unusual mix of product empathy and systems thinking. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex payment flows into robust, testable systems while fostering inclusive teams that scale.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) International Agricultural Development, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) International Agricultural Development at University of California, DavisRails Engineering, Rails Engineering at The Iron Yard
English, Haitian Creole, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
testing10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
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:32 commits, 63 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Deedee primarily contributed to the `activemerchant/active_merchant` repository by implementing payment gateway integrations, specifically for PayU Latam, Braintree, WePay, Barclaycard Smartpay, Payeezy, Cyber Source, Checkout V2, Global Collect, Safe Charge, Orbital, Borgun, Paymentez, WorldPay, Adyen, and Mercado Pago. The code changes included adding mandatory fields, handling tokenization, and refactoring address parsing. Their contributions also involved test suite maintenance and error handling improvements.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
deedeelavinder/deedeelavinder.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:64 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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