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BS Computer Science · University of Colorado Boulder
Software Engineer · Parcel
Senior Software Engineer · Northwind Pay
Maya Okafor
Senior backend engineer. I build payment systems that don't lose money.
Denver, CONorthwind Pay9 years in
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NowRebuilding payouts at Northwind Pay so merchants get paid the same day.
Since March 202440Mtransactions a day on the ledger I rebuilt−38%failed payouts after the retry redesign2.1kGitHub stars on pgqueue
Rebuilt the ledger for 40M transactions a day
Moved double-entry accounting off the monolith. Zero reconciliation breaks in 18 months.
GoPostgreSQLKafka
Redesigned payout retries
Idempotency keys and a retry budget per merchant.
Go
pgqueue: a job queue that's just Postgres
GoPostgreSQLgithub.com
Idempotent payouts, or how not to pay someone twice
Nine years building APIs, ledgers and payouts. I like boring, reliable systems and the people who keep them that way.