Molly Brown
Engineering Manager at Spreedly
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMolly Brown is an engineering manager in Durham, NC with eight years of experience growing through technical and leadership roles at Spreedly from junior engineer to manager. She combines hands-on backend expertise—contributing to the popular Active Merchant payment library—with a track record of improving gateway integrations, tests, and reliability for payment systems. Molly brings a measured, learning-first approach to team leadership, coaching engineers while driving product-quality improvements in payments infrastructure. Her background in biochemistry and early work in museum program management give her a practical, structured perspective on problem solving and stakeholder communication. Comfortable in both code and people management, she’s known for making complex payment flows more robust and testable.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Education Unit, Early Childhood Education and Teaching, Continuing Education Unit, Early Childhood Education and Teaching at Durham Technical Community CollegeB.S., Biochemistry, Cum Laude, B.S., Biochemistry, Cum Laude at Elon UniversityBack End Engineering Specialization, Web Development, Back End Engineering Specialization, Web Development at Momentum Learning, Inc.
Github Skills (8)
testing10
apim10
payment-gateway10
api10
ruby10
refactor9
refactoring9
error-handling9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
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:21 reviews, 65 commits, 113 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Molly primarily contributed to enhancing the Active Merchant payment abstraction library. Their work involved adding support for new fields in specific payment gateway integrations like Paymentez and handling error conditions for gateways such as Global Collect. The user also improved existing features by modifying code in the library to improve the quality and stability of the software. The user demonstrated their understanding of payment gateway interactions by adding tests and refactoring existing ones.
activemerchantrubyshopify
molbrown/molbrown.github.io
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
Portfolio website
Contributions:15 PRs, 28 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 4 months
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