Jody Vandenschrick

Specialities

Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years shipping regulated financial products at scale — FinTech, neo-banking, and payments infrastructure.
Track record of delivering across AU, NZ, and US markets with compliance-first engineering and high-availability platforms.
Full-stack ownership across Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, Elixir, and Kotlin with deep experience in observability and incident response.

System design: Distributed systems, payment flows, API design, domain modeling, and high-availability architecture.
Delivery: CI/CD, iterative delivery, compliance-aware engineering, TDD/BDD (RSpec, Jest, Cucumber).
Languages and frameworks: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Elixir, Kotlin, Python, Java.
Observability: Datadog, Sentry, New Relic, Bugsnag, Mixpanel.
Data and events: Kafka, Kinesis.
Cloud and platform: AWS (EC2, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, S3), Terraform, Docker, Heroku, Buildkite, GitHub Actions.

JUN 2024 - DEC 2025 Fresho - Software Engineer

Venues Pro: Launched a net-new monetized supplier-management product with AI-powered (OpenAI) email-to-order ingestion — from 0 to live with full order, invoice, and payment workflows.
Migrated to Xero’s official accounting integration and shipped invoice confirmation, hardening financial data integrity for connected merchants.
Renovate: Rolled out automated dependency updates across all 130 repositories, eliminating manual upgrade toil and reducing vulnerability exposure windows company-wide.

FEB 2022 - JUNE 2024 Cash App - Software Engineer

Migrated hardcoded strings across the codebase to an i18n framework, enabling Spanish support for US Latino users and establishing the foundation for future multi-language rollouts.
Partnered with the regulatory team to design and implement compliance workflows for Canada and Australia, adapting product behaviour to each region’s regulatory requirements.

SEP 2021 - FEB 2022 Money by Afterpay - Software Engineer

Shipped and maintained core banking features — account management, payments, and transaction history — on a live neo-banking platform.
Delivered Open Banking integrations with accessibility compliance by design, expanding financial access for a broader customer segment.

JUL 2020 - AUG 2021 Afterpay - Software Engineer

Built and improved merchant settlement systems, strengthening payout reliability and settlement accuracy at scale.
Contributed to the multi-market launch of the Afterpay Card (virtual card) across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States — a regulated payments product shipped across 3 jurisdictions.

JAN 2019 - JUN 2020 Culture Amp - Software Engineer

Shipped full-stack features across React/TypeScript and Ruby on Rails with CI/CD and TDD (RSpec, Jest, Cucumber) on a platform serving 160,000+ active users.
Drove production reliability using Bugsnag, Sentry, and New Relic — reducing incident noise and shortening mean time to recovery on a high-availability SaaS platform.

MAR 2018 - NOV 2018 Mplus Software - Project Manager

Managed delivery of a field operations app for SMTU (New Caledonia) — enabling bus stop cleaning requests, GPS-verified job completion, and photo evidence capture — coordinating remotely between the client and an Indonesia-based dev team.

MAY 2018 Hackathon - Winner, GUD | StartupVIC Automotive Technology Hackathon (TrueCOW)

Built TrueCOW, an API-driven total-cost-of-ownership algorithm; won 1st place across 20 competing teams.

2011 - 2013 Parrot - Mechanical Design Engineer (Drone UAV)

Drove consumer drone and accessory camera products from design to mass production in China, managing supplier relationships against cost and schedule targets.

2011 - 2013 AIRBUS Cimpa - Junior Project Manager

Led migration planning for 800 employees during the Diehl Aircabin carve-out from Airbus systems, coordinating technical and business workstreams to minimize operational disruption.

2017 Fullstack Developer Bootcamp - Le Wagon - France

2007-2011 Mechanical Engineering - University of Technology of Troyes - France

2010 Mechanical Engineering - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hong-Kong

2008-2009 Mechanical Engineering - University of Stuttgart - Germany

Kitesurfing, photography, travel, building and fixing things