Michael Roach
Lead Software Developer at Mazepay A/S
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Roach is a Lead Software Developer with over 15 years of professional experience building and maintaining multi-tenant monoliths, custom applications, and microservice back ends. Based in Copenhagen, he’s transitioned from full-stack work to a focus on backend and library development, favoring elegant, simple solutions that are well-documented, tested, and easy to deploy. He has led teams and rewrites, extracted APIs into Elixir replacements, and improved subscription and payment systems—contributing backend fixes and QuickPay support to the Spree payment gateway ecosystem. Comfortable working independently, Michael also thrives on collaboration and pragmatic rubber-ducking with skilled teams to solve tricky problems. He brings a practical bias for maintainability and observability, having driven efforts to pay down technical debt and enhance logging and monitoring. His background includes field-facing enterprise systems and hands-on deployment and infrastructure work, so he blends user-focused product thinking with production-hardened engineering.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masconomet Regional High School
English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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76answers
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
activemerchant10
spree10
braintree10
spreed10
testing8
stripe8
rspec6
sql-server6
asp-net-mvc6
oracle6
content-type6
sql6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
spree/spree_gateway
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Huge collection of payment gateways for @spree. Stripe, Braintree, Apple Pay, Authorize.net and many others!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Spree gateway project. Their work involved renaming methods, refactoring code related to payment processing, and fixing tests. They addressed issues related to Braintree gateway integration, ensuring correct transaction IDs and payment processing logic. Additionally, the user added support for the QuickPay gateway, demonstrating an understanding of ActiveMerchant and payment gateway integration.
stripepayspreecommerceadyenpayment-processing
veracross/ncontrib
Apr 2011 - Nov 2013
Contributions:92 commits in 2 years 7 months
dotnetdeclarewell-testedreadablefluid
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