Taras Kalapun
Independent FinTech Integration Consultant
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaras Kalapun is an Independent FinTech Integration Consultant with over 15 years of hands-on experience (20+ years in payments) designing and delivering payment processing and financial system implementations across POS, eCommerce, and omni-channel environments. He combines solutions consulting background at Adyen with full-stack and embedded POS firmware development experience (EMV, Apple Pay), enabling him to translate complex business requirements into secure, API-driven architectures and merchant onboarding flows. Taras has led technical discovery workshops, built proof-of-concept integrations for transaction routing, billing and reconciliation, and advised startups on architecture and technical due diligence. He is comfortable in both client-facing implementation leadership and low-level firmware/code contribution, evidenced by open-source contributions to CocoaPods improving error handling and developer tooling. Based in Florida and open to remote or part-time US roles with travel, he brings a pragmatic blend of product-minded engineering and operational know-how that helps merchants move from prototype to optimized production.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Project Management, Master, Project Management at KROK Economics and Law UniversityIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
dependency-manager10
ruby10
package-manager-tool10
error-handling10
package-manager10
cocoapods10
command-line-interface9
objective-c9
iphone9
command-line9
cli9
testing8
markdown7
markdown-it7
cocoa-touch6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Sep 2012 - May 2013
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 8 months
Contributions summary:Taras contributed to the CocoaPods project by implementing error handling and improving code quality. They added error handling for incorrect Podfile and Podfile.lock syntax, enhancing the robustness of the dependency management process. The user also refactored and added a new command, 'podfile-info', to display information about installed pods, including an option for Markdown output. Further commits addressed encoding issues when generating licenses.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
xslim/mobileDeviceManager
Jun 2011 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 6 months
swiftiositunes
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