Janson Webster
Senior Development Manager, Delivery Guarantees & Fulfillment Network at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJanson Webster is a senior software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling complex, high-stakes systems across fintech and enterprise environments. Currently leading Delivery Guarantees & Fulfillment Network and Taxes engineering at Shopify, he blends hands-on expertise in Java, SQL and Angular with strategic delivery oversight for large distributed teams. Previously at CPP Investments he led public markets engineering, driving a multi-million-dollar migration, building realtime data pipelines and a Python ETL framework for a 100TB time-series store. He contributes backend fixes to notable open-source projects like Active Merchant, improving payment gateway reliability and test coverage. Known for growing technical leaders and pragmatic roadmaps, he pairs deep implementation experience with a reputation for operational rigor. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a rare mix of front-line coding, cross-functional delivery, and financial systems domain knowledge.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
CDCI WestBachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
testing10
apim10
payment-gateway10
api10
ruby10
schema-validation9
braintree7
stripe7
cybersource7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Nov 2016 - May 2020
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:11 releases, 34 commits, 112 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Janson contributed to the Active Merchant library by implementing bug fixes and enhancements to payment gateway integrations. Their work included addressing currency formatting issues in the Worldpay gateway and setting default ECI values for the FirstData E4 gateway. The user also updated the library version, and improved test data handling. Furthermore, the user ensured schema validation for CyberSource requests and resolved refund handling issues with the Stripe and BraintreeBlue gateways.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
jasonwebster/active_merchant
Nov 2016 - May 2020
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:98 pushes, 36 branches, 22 tags in 3 years 6 months
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
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