Kristófer Þorláksson
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKristófer Þorláksson is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience designing and integrating reliable systems, currently building payments infrastructure at Shopify. He previously led technical work on WooPayments and WooPay at Automattic, owning end-to-end integrations, incident response for security outages, and full-stack features in PHP, TypeScript, and React. His open-source contributions include backend fixes and release management for the official WooCommerce Stripe gateway, showing attention to both user-facing issues and release hygiene. With a research background at Fraunhofer and dual B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Mechatronics/Robotics, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with practical product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership during high-pressure incidents and for bridging complex internal and external payment systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Icelandic, English
Github Skills (17)
woocommerce10
javascript10
system-programming10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
url-parsing10
zig10
parse10
uri10
url-parser10
emulation10
stripe-api10
unit-testing9
php9
error-handling9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 403 reviews, 325 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kristófer primarily contributed to the official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce. Their work included bumping WC Tested Up To versions, fixing order summary issues on single product pages and updating code related to the front end JavaScript. In addition to these bug fixes and minor updates, they were responsible for creating releases and bumping product version numbers. They also removed hard requirement for phone numbers with Apple Pay.
paymentsstripeecommercetransactwoocommerce
reykjalin/kakoune-mode
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Provides a kakoune mode for VSCode
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 months
vscodevscode-extensionkakoune
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