Storefront craft
Make visual direction editable
Translate prototypes into maintainable Liquid sections, merchant controls, app boundaries, and responsive behavior.
Senior Commerce Systems Engineer
I design and de-risk complex commerce systems.
From Shopify Liquid themes and subscription migrations to Adobe Commerce checkout, inventory, payments, and production incidents, I turn prototypes, legacy code, and operational failures into maintainable, evidence-backed releases.
- ShippedShopify Liquid storefront
- ValidatedGated checkout reliability
- OperationalAdobe Commerce delivery
Bran Orphiano · Commerce Systems Engineer
Adobe Commerce·
Magento 2·
Shopify / Liquid·
Hyvä·
Subscriptions·
Integrations·
Reporting·
AI Workflows·
QA Gates
Selected work
Storefront craft, systems depth, operational judgment.
Three case studies show the range: visual Shopify delivery, transactional reliability, and multi-brand Adobe Commerce scale.
Shopify / Liquid
Shipped
Upgrade-Safe Storefront Modernization
A static design direction needed to become an editable Liquid homepage without coupling brand features to customized vendor-theme code.
Liquid
theme editor
Reviews.io
browser QA
→ Editable storefront, isolated extension layer, verified draft preview.
Magento / Reliability
Validated
High-Stakes Gated Commerce Release
A time-bound purchase flow crossed OTP access, private product discovery, checkout, payments, dealer inventory, and fulfilment.
OTP
checkout
RabbitMQ
MSI inventory
→ Bounded subsystem with explicit failure behavior and release controls.
Adobe Commerce
Catalog
Brickworks Multi-Brand Catalog Platform
A single Adobe Commerce instance powers regional brand sites, product catalogs, sample requests, store lookup, and design-service journeys.
multi-site
themes
catalog
Akeneo
→ Multi-brand catalog experience under one commerce platform.
Profile and approach
Senior engineering across storefronts, platforms, and operations.
I fit best where the work needs more than ticket-taking: translating designs into editable storefronts, untangling platform and integration boundaries, diagnosing production behavior, and carrying risky changes through evidence, QA, and a clear release handoff.
- Roles
- Senior Commerce Systems Engineer, Adobe Commerce Engineer, Shopify Theme Engineer
- Platforms
- Shopify, Liquid, Magento 2, Adobe Commerce, Hyvä, integrations and SQL
- Operating style
- Remote-first, evidence-led, QA-gated and clearly documented
- Location
- Philippines (GMT+8), experienced in remote collaboration and written handoffs
Systems depth
Find the real owner of failure
Trace checkout, payments, inventory, queues, APIs, configuration, and data before changing production code.
Operational judgment
Separate built, verified, and released
Keep scope, evidence, approval, rollback, and handoff explicit so teams can operate the result safely.
Proof employers can scan
Evidence at the point of decision.
The strongest work is not a technology list. It is a traceable path from uncertainty to a verified decision, with shipped work separated from investigation and gated follow-up.
| Work | Decision | Verification | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify / LiquidEditable storefront | Keep brand behavior in merchant-controlled sections and isolated extension files. | Six boundary widths, zero new Theme Check offences, live unpublished preview. | Shipped |
| Magento / ReliabilityFail-closed transactions | Keep OTP, checkout, payment, inventory, and fulfilment boundaries explicit. | Headed browser flows, PII-free queue payloads, database and configuration checks. | Validated |
| Data / OperationsIdentity before interpretation | Prove environment, permissions, time window, and mutation scope before acting. | Read-only access, scoped masking, reproducible reports, durable handoff. | Operational |
Systems Lab
Tools that make delivery more durable.
Private and internal systems are secondary to client delivery, but they show how I turn repeated engineering friction into reusable workflows.
Knowledge System
Loki / Hepha
A private AI-assisted engineering memory and knowledge graph built across projects and clients.
Automation
Buddy
Phone-first Telegram-to-Codex bridge for approving and routing autonomous engineering tasks from an iPhone.
Dev Tooling
Magento Reporting Helpers
Reusable SQL and CLI tools for order, inventory, and tracking reporting in Adobe Commerce.
Working through a complex commerce change?
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