Xiaolei Wheelock
Global Technical Account Manager at PayPal
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaolei Wheelock is a Global Technical Account Manager with nine years of technical customer-facing experience and over two decades at PayPal, helping top e-commerce and enterprise merchants optimize payments architecture, performance, and operations. Based in Omaha, he blends hands-on developer experience—contributing to PayPal's PHP SDK by adding token retrieval, refactoring, and unit tests—with strategic consulting for Fortune-level clients. He has progressed from developer support and API review to leading technical account management for major North American and global portfolios, driving measurable portfolio growth and operational excellence. Comfortable bridging engineering, product, policy, and risk teams, Xiaolei helps translate complex technical constraints into pragmatic integrations and best practices. His background in computer science and an uncommon mix of developer contributions plus deep account stewardship make him a go-to technical partner for scaling payment platforms.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Nebraska at OmahaMS Textile Science, MS Textile Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
rest-api10
php10
sdk10
git5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paypal/PayPal-PHP-SDK
May 2017 - May 2017
PHP SDK for PayPal RESTful APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 9 days
Contributions summary:Xiaolei contributed to the `paypal-php-sdk` project by adding a `getToken()` function to the `Payment` class, allowing retrieval of the Express Checkout token from the approval URL. The user also refactored the code, removing an unnecessary check and adding unit tests for the newly implemented functionality. Finally, the user removed deprecated bank info vault samples and updated related documentation.
paymentspayment-servicerestfulphppayment-gateway
xiaoleih41/PayPal-PHP-SDK
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 8 days
paymentsrestfulphppayment-gatewaysdk
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