Michael Paul
Software Engineer at Adyen
Netherlands
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Paul is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable e-commerce and payment systems, currently contributing to Adyen's Magento 2 payment integration. He has a strong backend focus—optimizing payment flows, webhooks, and recurring logic—and a track record of improving performance and reliability across platforms, from migrating feeds to MongoDB to refactoring image pipelines into background workers. At Emesa he drove PSD2-compliant payment upgrades and stronger fulfillment/stock systems, and earlier introduced Docker and analytics tooling to reduce cost and increase observability. Based in the Netherlands with a formal background in systems analysis, he blends hands-on engineering with operational sensibility and a knack for simplifying complex integrations. Notably, his open-source contributions to Adyen’s widely used Magento plugin reflect practical impact on merchant payment reliability.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Systems Analysis and Development, Bachelor's degree, Systems Analysis and Development at Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (9)
apim10
php10
api10
payment10
back-end-development10
magento10
api-design10
adyen10
webhooks10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Adyen/adyen-magento2
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Adyen Payment plugin for Magento2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:306 reviews, 63 commits, 80 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Adyen Magento 2 payment plugin. Their work focused on enhancing payment processing logic, including filtering parameters in payment details calls, integrating a webhook module for notification handling, and modifying the storage of state data related to payment methods. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to recurring payment logic, optimized the use of store payment method modes, and removed unused code. These changes suggest a focus on improving the core payment flow and integration with Adyen services.
paymentspayment-pluginecommercemagento2-moduleadyen-plugin
michaelpaul/adyen-magento2
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
Adyen Payment plugin for Magento2
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 10 months
payment-pluginmagento2mercadopagoadyenpayment
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