Ade Adebolu

I lead backend development for the business's payment and shipper experience arms.

• Migrated our payment functionality from the tightly coupled legacy platform to a generic platform that allows us to easily switch between multiple payment providers, thus improving our payment success rate from 80 to 95% and reducing fraudulent transactions.
• I collaborated with product leaders and oversaw the implementation of our self-managed discount management platform, and I documented this system for our customer success teams. This improved customer retention during the festive season compared to the previous years.
• I breakdown, oversee the development and review the code of newer features we are building for our shipper experience while mentoring junior team members.

Tech stack: Nodejs, typescript, ELK, PostgresSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, BullMQ, AWS

GoCardless helps businesses collect payments via direct debit and open banking,

I worked with the payment success team that built and maintained the success+ product.

• I contributed to the feature that helped us collect failed direct debit payments using open banking for faster recovery.
• I maintained, improved testing and documented the payment optimisation engine.

Tech stack: ruby, rails, PostgresSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

• Helped with the company’s expansion to Australia by integrating Australian carriers like Aramex and couriersplease.
• Maintained, fixed bugs, documented and improved test coverage from 20% to 80% for some integrations.
• Mentored engineers, performed code reviews and collaborated with implementation managers to manage priorities.

Tech Stack: Nodejs, typescript, Mocha