Tom Bonnike is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years building payment-focused product experiences across high-scale platforms including Shopify, N26, Epic Games/Bandcamp. He combines front-end craftsmanship (TypeScript, React, accessibility) with backend work (Ruby on Rails, GraphQL) and deep domain expertise in payments, KYC, and compliance—having led a 10‑month KYC overhaul affecting 100k+ merchants. At Shopify and N26 he drove major conversions and local payment integrations, co-architected large web migrations, and helped grow engineering teams and processes across regions. He’s an “expert generalist” who also contributes to open-source UI/accessibility improvements (e.g., Spectrum), bringing pragmatic product sensibility to complex risk and checkout problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Web Engineering, Master’s Degree Web Engineering at HETIC
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 20 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the `spectrum` repository. They implemented focus styles for navigation bar links and removed focus from the logo. Moreover, they added a skip link for improved navigation and incorporated `aria-current` attributes for active links. These changes enhance user experience and adhere to accessibility best practices.
Contributions:114 commits, 2 PRs, 160 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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