Dylan Mcclain
Senior Software Engineer at Expeditors
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Mcclain is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with seven years building full-stack systems for high-throughput payment and logistics platforms. He moves fluidly between Ruby/Rails and Java/Spring stacks, having implemented payment gateway integrations and distributed services that handle billions of transactions and complex carrier allocations. Beyond shipping features he mentors and coordinates teams, drawing on prior roles as a trainer, program coordinator, and therapist to prioritize collaboration and human-centered processes. An active contributor to the widely used Active Merchant library, he’s solved real-world payment edge cases across many gateways and reinforced security and testing practices. Dylan balances technical rigor with curiosity—he’s a modest gardener and former clinician who brings empathy and systems thinking to software design.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. in Art Therapy & Community Counseling, Art Therapy & Community Counseling, M.S. in Art Therapy & Community Counseling, Art Therapy & Community Counseling at Mount Mary UniversityB.S. in Writing and Philosophy, Writing & Philosophy, B.S. in Writing and Philosophy, Writing & Philosophy at Drake University
Github Skills (11)
testing10
apim10
activemerchant10
payment-gateway10
payment-processing10
api10
card10
credit-card10
ruby10
json8
xml8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
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:213 reviews, 69 commits, 127 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Dylan contributed to the Active Merchant library, focusing on integrating payment gateways. Their commits demonstrate the addition and modification of features related to specific payment gateways such as Forte, HPS, Credorax, Payeezy, PaywayDotCom, Elavon, PayU Latam, dLocal, Moka, Realex, PayArc, Adyen, BluePay, Payflow, CyberSource, and Worldpay, addressing payment processing logic and data handling. These changes involved sending specific data fields, handling card types, implementing new features, and fixing bugs. They also addressed issues related to currency handling, testing, and security.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
dsmcclain/React-Yahtzee
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
The classic game of Yahtzee, built with React
Contributions:3 releases, 25 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 2 months
reactbuilt-with-reactgameclassic-gamejavascript
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