Daniel Kerr is the founder and long-time owner of OpenCart with 14 years of hands-on experience building PHP-based e-commerce platforms from Hong Kong. He has driven core back-end development for the widely used OpenCart project, focusing on subscription and payment integrations and improving transaction and user flows. With an HND in Software Engineering from Blackpool and The Fylde College, he combines formal training with two decades of practical product ownership since 2005. Daniel’s contributions span model, controller, and language layers, reflecting deep familiarity with database interactions and real-world merchant requirements. He balances entrepreneurial stewardship of an open-source product with continued technical delivery, often shipping fixes and feature enhancements himself. Less obvious: he maintains both product vision and low-level code involvement, a rare blend for a long-term open-source owner.
13 years of coding experience
HND in Software Engineering, IT, HND in Software Engineering, IT at Blackpool and The Fylde College
A free shopping cart system. OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online e-commerce solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:22 releases, 1 review, 6701 commits in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel appears to have been involved in implementing, modifying, and resolving issues related to subscriptions and payment methods within the Opencart e-commerce platform. The contributions span multiple files, including model, controller, and language files, indicating a focus on back-end logic and database interactions. The user's work included enhancing subscription-related functionalities, such as enabling, handling, and managing payment-related processes, and also improving the user experience.
Contributions:214 commits, 49 PRs, 227 pushes in 8 years
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