Rick Faaberg
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Payments at Olo
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRick Faaberg is a senior software engineering manager specializing in payments infrastructure with 10 years of engineering experience and 5+ years leading remote, distributed B2B SaaS teams. Based in Portland, he has driven processor integrations, fraud prevention, and operational reliability for large restaurant brands while navigating rapid growth, org splits, and layoffs without sacrificing delivery. A former hands-on engineer, he balances architecture and code-level judgment with pragmatic execution—introducing sprint WIP limits and quarterly Gantt planning that converted chaotic work into predictable delivery. He has led executive crisis responses that retained high-value customers and mentored engineers through major platform moves like Kubernetes migrations that accelerated careers. Rick writes about engineering management at bossleveling.com and is open to the right remote engineering manager role.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, New Media Communications, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, New Media Communications at Oregon State University
English
Github Skills (42)
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
react-component9
sass-framework9
prototyping9
react8
google-pay8
development-environment8
payment8
prototypes8
css8
responsive8
mvc-architecture8
csharp7
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
faabergr/faabergr.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
My blog
Contributions:31 PRs, 101 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year 7 months
my-blog
google-pay/payment-data-cryptography-dotnet
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
Sample implementation of Google Pay Payment Data Cryptography in C#
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
cryptographydotnetpaycsharppayment
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