I've Joined Braintree Payment Solutions

Posted by ch0wda on February 13 2008 at 11:35 AM

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and it’s also been a while since I changed jobs. I’m very pleased to announce that I now work for Braintree Payment Solutions. I’ve been putting all my energy into helping our CEO, Bryan Johnson make Braintree the place for discerning developers, and I think the combination of our support, technology, and services offered place us at the top of the industry. In short, it’s a credit card payment gateway, but it’s way more than that. Here’s the description from Braintree:

Braintree Payment Solutions is a leading provider of end-to-end electronic payment products and services. Braintree processes all forms of electronic payment transactions – credit, debit, electronic check, and electronic funds transfer. The company offers simplified PCI Compliance and credit card storage solutions, risk and fraud management, ecommerce solutions, and rate management. We’re changing the industry one customer at a time and would invite you to experience the difference.

Officially, my role is “Community Developer”, which sounds a bit ambiguous, but it’s actually a perfect title for what I’m going to be doing. I’m in charge of all things developer at Braintree, so I’m focused on Developing the Community and also Developing for the Community. In short, you can check out my work on the Braintree Community Developer Site which will include a blog, support forums, api docs, code examples, and all the information that you’ll need to easily integrate payment processing into your own applications.

The site is currently a little sparse on content, but we’re adding more everyday and I’m completely focused on making it the definitive place for information on credit card processing, payment gateways, and integration issues for developers in all communities. Initially, we’re focusing on Ruby on Rails developers, but we welcome developers from all languages and frameworks. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please contact me at developer@getbraintree.com.

Needless to say, I’m very excited to be a part of such a great company and I’m looking forward to helping people navigate through a very complicated industry.

Joining GoNowDo 1

Posted by ch0wda on September 26 2007 at 08:59 AM

Today marks the last day that I’ll be working at Cardinal. I’m extremely excited to be working for a new company, GoNowDo. We’re going to be working on solving some interesting problems in the online travel industry. Stay tuned for more information.

Thanks to everyone at Cardinal!

Desktop Support -1

Posted by ch0wda on March 28 2007 at 02:32 PM

Why does it seem like these people are always so uptight about you installing anything on “their” machines? I realize that the majority of their day is spent trying to help the most computer illiterate people figure out why IE won’t do this or that, but I promise you that I will never call them for support. If they hate their jobs so much, just go ahead and become a developer, or system administrator. I’m not saying that they aren’t valuable and necessary workers, but the future tells me that desktop support is a new entrant into “blue-collar” work.

I recently have attempted to get a desktop computer to go along with nice laptop in order to demo some things for my users internally. By their reaction, you would have thought that I was asking to setup a datacenter in the bathroom. I guess that’s what I get for being an outsider.