Commerce & Payments
Owning the full commerce platform — cart, order management, subscriptions, dunning, and multi-party payment flows. PCI DSS compliant (SAQ A).
Technical Lead Engineer
Richard Gabriel
I build commerce platforms and lead the teams behind them.
Full stack engineer with 20 years of experience in web applications, payments, and team leadership.
What I Work On
Trust & Safety
Protecting the payment lifecycle — from transaction screening to lead quality.
Team Leadership
Running a team day-to-day — 1:1s, technical direction, and cross-functional collaboration in a Product/Design/Engineering triad.
Experimentation & Observability
Shaping how features get measured and rolled out — A/B testing, feature flagging, and analytics.
AI & Developer Experience
Championing AI adoption and building internal tooling that keeps engineering teams shipping with confidence.
Experience
Technical Lead Engineer
Trader InteractiveRearchitected the commerce platform, built fraud prevention systems, and established experimentation and analytics practices. Leading a team in a Product/Design/Engineering triad while championing AI adoption across the organization. Promoted twice in under three years.
Senior Web Developer & IT Manager
Wake Industrial LLCLed IT operations and web development, managing AWS environments and building internal applications. Built API-driven marketing integrations and managed large-scale ad campaigns, applying SEO and analytics to real engineering problems.
Founder & Lead Developer
Illuminati Karate, Inc.Co-founded and ran a web development consultancy for 15 years. Owned every part of the business — client relationships, product strategy, architecture, development, and support. Grew from freelance work into a full-service shop delivering web applications and SEO-driven sites. Sold my stake to pursue the scale, collaboration, and growth that come from working on a team.