Rik Beek
VP Engineering Integrations
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRik Beek is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling payments and integrations teams across high-scale environments from Adyen to StuDocu and now Yuno. He combines hands-on full-stack experience (Java, PHP, C#, Python) and open-source contributions—most notably to the Adyen Magento2 payments plugin—with strategic delivery of multi-PSP subscription and monetization platforms. At Adyen he led API strategy, hiring and teams of teams (coordinating ~100 developers), and at StuDocu he modernized payment architecture to event-driven, expanded provider coverage, and improved US authorization rates via Merchant-of-Record. Known for recruiting at scale and turning partner/plugin programs into robust productized integrations, he thrives on solving integration pain points that directly impact revenue. Bilingual in English and Dutch and based in Leiden, he prefers dynamic challenges that push both technology and teams forward.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, NT (Natuur en Techniek), HAVO, NT (Natuur en Techniek) at Da Vinci CollegeBachelor, Information And Communication Technology, Bachelor, Information And Communication Technology at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (8)
php10
javascript10
payment10
magento10
ecommerce10
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
css7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Adyen/adyen-magento2
Jul 2015 - Aug 2020
Adyen Payment plugin for Magento2
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 488 commits, 265 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rik made numerous commits focused on implementing and refactoring payment-related features within the Magento 2 Adyen plugin. They worked on the credit card (CC) and one-click payment methods, adding features, such as installment support. Their contributions involved front-end template modifications, component implementation, and back-end logic within the model. They also contributed to support for Swish payments, implemented the setup for Brazilian and openinvoice.
paymentspayment-pluginecommercemagento2-moduleadyen-plugin
Adyen/.github
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Organization-wide community health files in the @adyen organization
Contributions:7 reviews, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 6 months
health-fileshealthadyencommunity-health-filesorganization-wide
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