Dwain Maralack
Founder at Klop!
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDwain Maralack is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building reliable, human-centered systems for payments and e-commerce. He spent over a decade at Automattic driving platform-level improvements—from processor-agnostic fraud risk APIs that cut losses dramatically to vendor automation and stabilized OAuth integrations for high-traffic merchants. Equally comfortable in code and coaching, he introduced delivery practices (GitHub Projects, 5-week sprints) and on-call designs adopted across multiple teams while building and supporting a neurodiverse engineering team. His open-source work includes back-end contributions to widely used projects like the WooCommerce Stripe gateway and Sensei LMS, reflecting deep familiarity with payment flows and plugin architecture. Now founding a smart budgeting startup, he blends product empathy from early support roles with systems thinking to deliver scalable, secure solutions that reduce operational pain.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma, Information Technology ( Software Development), National Diploma, Information Technology ( Software Development) at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
woocommerce10
apim10
php10
payment-gateway10
api10
gateway10
lms10
stripe-api10
refactor9
phpunit9
refactoring9
testing8
laravel6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/sensei
Jun 2014 - Jul 2016
Sensei LMS - Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 1350 commits, 192 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dwain primarily focused on enhancing the Sensei LMS platform by fixing bugs and introducing new features. They implemented a fix to ensure lesson authors were updated correctly within the course, preventing errors when authors were changed. Additionally, the user worked on integrating and streamlining the module functionality, as well as contributing towards improvements in the user and lesson data management features within the Sensei system.
wordpressphpsenseisensei-lmsplugin
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Jun 2016 - May 2020
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 33 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dwain primarily focused on code style updates and bug fixes within the Stripe payment gateway for WooCommerce. These updates included modifications to the class structure, the addition and removal of functions, and the addition of filters, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and improving the existing codebase. Furthermore, the user ensured the keys were set and valid within the payment gateway. The changes span multiple files, highlighting the user's understanding of the plugin's overall architecture and payment processing logic.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
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