Nhon Dang is a Software Engineer II based in Seattle with three years of professional engineering experience and a background as a respiratory therapist turned developer. After retraining at Flatiron School, he moved quickly through roles at Spreedly, shipping backend features and integrations for payments systems. He contributes to the well-known Active Merchant library, adding gateway-specific fields and improving transaction handling for providers like Braintree, Adyen, and CyberSource. Comfortable in both support and engineering roles, he brings a practical, customer-focused perspective to designing robust payment workflows. Nhon thrives on continuous learning in a fast-changing industry and enjoys tackling the nuanced edge cases that make payment integrations reliable in production. His healthcare-to-tech pivot gives him uncommon empathy for end users and a disciplined approach to problem solving.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences General, Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences General at PennWest Clarion
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences General, Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences General at Onondaga Community College
Bachelor of Science - BS Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist, Bachelor of Science - BS Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist at Upstate Medical University
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
Contributions:86 reviews, 148 PRs, 275 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nhon primarily contributed to enhancing payment gateway integrations within the Active Merchant library. Their work involved adding gateway-specific fields, such as those for Braintree Blue, BlueSnap, and Kushki, to support new payment options and features. They also updated transaction hash methods and added support for features like the shopper statement field in the Adyen gateway and the merchantCategoryCode for CyberSource. The user demonstrated expertise in modifying and testing different payment gateway integrations.
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:4 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
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