https://hayden.dev/Recent content on hayden.devHugoen-usWed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://hayden.dev/posts/how-eft-payment-files-work-in-canada/Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://hayden.dev/posts/how-eft-payment-files-work-in-canada/Billions of dollars still move through fixed-width text files. Here is what they look like.https://hayden.dev/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://hayden.dev/about/<p>These days I&rsquo;m Head of Engineering at <a href="https://pine.ca">Pine</a>, where I was the first employee. I came on as the founding engineer and had the oppurtunity to build lending systems and the teams building them from scratch.</p> <p>Before Pine, I was at RBC, where I started as an intern and worked up to an engineering manager role. I worked in business banking building payments systems, platform tooling, and financial spreading applications.</p> <p>I consider myself a hacker a heart. I enjoy building random tools, scripts and learning by breaking into stuff. In college I built <a href="https://www.alphaconsole.io">AlphaConsole</a> a mod that used DLL injection to offer in game features and cosmetic enhancements. Along with volunteers we grew it to 5 million downloads, 300k monthly active users and at one point, the largest discord server in the world.</p>