Glen Scott
Freelance Web Developer at Yellow Square Development
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGlen Scott is a seasoned freelance web developer and founder with over 20 years of hands-on experience building LAMP-based sites and applications and a 12-year track record as an independent consultant. He blends technical leadership and people management—having led an engineering team at Yahoo! for multiple European sports properties—with a pragmatic focus on maintainable, production-ready code. As Technical Director at Design Solution he architected MailBigFile.com, one of the UK’s most popular file-transfer services, and continues to deliver revenue-driving bespoke systems for startups and agencies via Yellow Square Development. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, Glen emphasizes scalability, availability and straightforward solutions to complex problems, backed by formal study (MSc in Software Development). He contributes to open-source tooling—improving a widely used PHP Twitter API wrapper—to strengthen interoperability and robustness. Known for clear communication and reliability, he positions himself as a “safe pair of hands” who won’t disappear mid-project and who prioritizes long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Development, MSc, Software Development at Open UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Bedfordshire
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Github Skills (15)
php10
curl10
oauth10
twitter-api10
apidoc9
api9
url-encoding9
http9
testing7
facebook6
facebook-graph-api6
html6
oauth2-client6
javascript6
linkedin-api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
J7mbo/twitter-api-php
Apr 2015 - May 2015
The simplest PHP Wrapper for Twitter API v1.1 calls
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 26 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Glen primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the Twitter API PHP wrapper. Their contributions involved implementing URL encoding for parameters, refining OAuth parameter handling within the authorization header, and enhancing compatibility with the Twitter API. The user also added functionality to allow additional curl options to be set. These changes improved the library's stability and adherence to API best practices.
apicallssimplestphpphp-wrapper
audiomack/audiomack-api-examples
Apr 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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