Douglas Tykocki
Staff Software Engineer at Parabolic Auto
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Tykocki is a staff software engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient backend systems and leading engineering teams across fintech, SaaS, and platform companies. Based in Atlanta, he specializes in Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, and Kafka, and has held senior and staff roles at Parabolic Auto, Skupos, Spreedly, and Calendly where he focused on scalable, event-driven architectures. He combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership—mentoring engineers while driving cross-functional initiatives from design through production. A systems analysis graduate from Miami University, he has a track record of moving legacy systems to robust, message-driven platforms and often chooses BE languages and tooling that favor concurrency and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Systems Analysis, BS, Systems Analysis at Miami University
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Github Skills (87)
http10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
merchant10
payment-integration10
payment10
spree10
erlang10
shopify10
riak10
adyen10
square10
ecommerce10
payment-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dtykocki/active_merchant
Jun 2017 - Sep 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.
Contributions:163 pushes, 62 branches in 2 years 3 months
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
dtykocki/virus_total
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 8 months
apivirustotalelixirpublic-apiotp
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