Richard Shin
Engineering Manager at Braintree
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Shin is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and leading payments and mobile teams from Oakland, California. Currently at Braintree he manages Pay with PayPal, Pay with Venmo, and digital wallets, after serving as tech lead for wallet integrations and implementing Rails-based backends for PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Venmo. He blends hands-on engineering across Ruby on Rails, iOS, Android, Java, and JavaScript with people leadership and cross-platform integration experience. Earlier roles include shipping the Climate iOS app and open-source map overlay tooling, and improving performance and reliability in medical imaging systems via multithreaded C# services. Known for pragmatic, performance-focused fixes—like eliminating major bottlenecks and automating support workflows—he consistently turns complex integration challenges into reliable production systems. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Irvine and thrives at the intersection of payments, mobile, and backend engineering.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (116)
controller10
visa10
payment-service10
payment-gateway10
storekit10
in-app-purchase10
php-library10
paypal10
credit-card10
sdk10
carthage10
swift10
mastercard10
xcode10
android10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
donnellyk/ios-credit-card-form
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:30 commits in 5 months
creditios-appiosform-uidebit
skunkworks/GraphicalSet
May 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
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