Ethan Wayda
Senior Software Engineer at Chime
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Wayda is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across fintech and commerce platforms, now contributing to Chime’s Banking Accounts Platform. He has a strong backend pedigree (Golang, C++, Python, Java) and a track record of owning cross-cutting services—most recently architecting merchant-facing systems and a Merchant Proxy at Bolt to simplify platform integrations. Ethan led high-impact initiatives around availability and scalability, shipped Remote Checkout used at NY Fashion Week, and built experimentation tooling using Thompson sampling to optimize checkout conversions. He pairs hands-on engineering with operational rigor, having improved CI/CD, monitoring, and on-call processes for distributed teams. Based in Washington, D.C., he blends product-facing responsibilities (merchant onboarding, feature ownership) with deep systems work, making him comfortable translating customer needs into reliable, measurable services. An early adopter of engineering best practices, he’s introduced testing and build improvements across teams to raise overall code quality.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, German
Github Skills (25)
checkout10
bolt10
payment10
magento8
ecommerce8
owner6
adyen5
prepare5
cybersource4
api-client4
api4
payment-processing3
derivative3
braintree3
distribute3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ethanwayda22/redismq
Jun 2020 - Jul 2023
a durable message queue system for go based on redis, see also https://github.com/adjust/rmq
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
golangredisrmqqueuesmessage-queue
BoltApp/bolt-magento2
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Bolt plugin for magento2
Contributions:6 reviews, 89 commits, 53 PRs in 3 years 4 months
boltecommercemagento-2magento2checkout
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