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Caitlin Brakel

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Caitlin Brakel

Worked on the bold-commerce/adobe-commerce-bold-checkout-payment-booster repository, focusing on both reliability and performance in e-commerce checkout flows. Addressed tax-inclusive pricing issues by refining financial calculations to ensure PayPal-submitted subtotals excluded tax, resolving rounding discrepancies and improving data integrity. Upgraded the Braintree Fastlane SDK to enhance checkout performance and codified release stability with a version bump, ensuring readiness for deployment. Demonstrated backend and frontend development skills using JavaScript and PHP, with particular attention to payment gateway integration and arithmetic precision. The work reduced reconciliation errors, improved checkout reliability, and maintained a disciplined approach to release management and code quality.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

67%Features

Repository Contributions

4Total
Bugs
1
Commits
4
Features
2
Lines of code
58
Activity Months2

Work History

April 2025

2 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for bold-commerce/adobe-commerce-bold-checkout-payment-booster. Focused on performance and release stability with two key deliverables: a dependency upgrade for the Braintree Fastlane SDK and an explicit release version bump. The work enhances checkout performance capabilities and solidifies release readiness, with changes tracked via CHK-8320 and CHK-8323 commits.

February 2025

2 Commits

Feb 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-02 (Repository: bold-commerce/adobe-commerce-bold-checkout-payment-booster) Key features delivered: - Bug fix: Financial Subtotal Accuracy and PayPal Data Exchange with Tax-Inclusive Pricing. Ensured PayPal-submitted subtotals exclude tax when catalog prices include tax; corrected unit_price * quantity calculations. Major bugs fixed: - CHK-6927: Prices include tax — align PayPal data with tax-inclusive pricing. - CHK-7921: Resolve rounding issues — address rounding in tax-inclusive pricing. Impact: - Eliminated checkout reconciliation errors, improved pricing integrity, and reduced post-checkout support. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Tax-inclusive pricing calculations, PayPal data mapping, arithmetic precision, commit hygiene. Note: No new features released this month; focus on reliability and data integrity.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.6%
Maintainability90.0%
Architecture90.0%
Performance90.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

JavaScriptPHP

Technical Skills

Backend DevelopmentE-commerceFinancial CalculationsFrontend DevelopmentJavaScriptPayment Gateway Integration

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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bold-commerce/adobe-commerce-bold-checkout-payment-booster

Feb 2025 Apr 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

PHPJavaScript

Technical Skills

Backend DevelopmentE-commerceFinancial CalculationsPayment Gateway IntegrationFrontend DevelopmentJavaScript