Ian Wilson
Senior Software ENGINEER(R&D) at Kerridge Commercial Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorIan Wilson is a Senior Software Engineer (R&D) based in Newcastle upon Tyne with 14 years of experience building backend e-commerce systems, payment gateway integrations, and affiliate network tooling. He has deep PHP and MySQL expertise and a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes and performance improvements in mature open-source projects. As a long-time partner at Zen Ventures he helped steward the widely used Zen Cart platform, contributing tax fixes, query caching, and admin-profile robustness that improved order processing at scale. Currently at Kerridge Commercial Systems, he blends R&D rigor with hands-on engineering to solve real-world commerce problems. Ian’s background spans startups and larger ad/commerce teams, giving him a useful mix of entrepreneurial ownership and enterprise-grade delivery. Colleagues rely on him for durable, low-friction solutions that keep revenue-critical systems running smoothly.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
caching10
debug10
php10
database-design10
mysql10
ecommerce10
database-optimization9
code-cleanup9
maintenance9
performance-tuning8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zencart/zencart
Jun 2012 - Aug 2022
Zen Cart® is a full-function e-commerce application for your website.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 21 reviews, 1655 commits in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on addressing tax-related issues and implementing query caching within the Zen Cart e-commerce platform. Their contributions involved fixing compounded tax problems within the order processing system and integrating data-diggers query cache. Further work involved fixing admin profiles code to manage product types and fixing an issue where a blank profile name could be added.
commerce-applicationecommercecommercephpframework
zcwilt/documentation
May 2020 - Jun 2024
Zen Cart FAQs and Developer Documentation
Contributions:66 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 1 month
ecommercedeveloper-documentationfaqsshopping-cartzen
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