John Alderson
Owner at S4, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Alderson is the owner of S4, Inc. and a software engineer with six years of experience building and maintaining backend systems, currently based in Boulder, Colorado. He is committed to an ethical, open, and sustainable internet, contributing to open-source projects like FOSSBilling where he focused on license compliance, core service fixes, and small but impactful backend enhancements. John brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach—ensuring code quality, legal compliance, and reliable internationalization (e.g., returning country names) in production systems. As a hands-on connector between business and engineering, he balances ownership responsibilities with active technical contribution. His background includes formal study at Montana State University-Bozeman, and he favors practical improvements that reduce risk and improve maintainability over flashy rewrites.
6 years of coding experience
Montana State University-Bozeman
Github Skills (5)
open-source10
php10
twig10
hosting9
billing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FOSSBilling/FOSSBilling
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Empower your hosting business with FOSSBilling, the free and open-source solution for efficient billing and client management.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:326 reviews, 125 commits, 173 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on updating copyright and license notices across various PHP files, ensuring compliance with the Apache 2.0 license. They fixed blank files, including a core service file, and updated various twig files. Additional contributions included adding the ability to return country names, and some minor code corrections.
hostingpaymentsmysqlecommercetwig
S4-Hosting/S4-Admin
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
A fork of the mainwp-child plugin that we install on client sites to allow us to update plugins, etc. remotely.
Contributions:8 releases, 16 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 8 months
remotelypluginmainwpsitesupdate
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