Sam Butler-thompson
Ecommerce Development Director at IDHL
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSam Butler-thompson is an Ecommerce Development Director and seasoned software engineer with 15+ years of commerce platform experience across Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, Shopware and Shopify. He combines hands-on PHP and Node.js development with leadership roles that scale teams and streamline delivery, having progressed from self-employed web designer to head of commerce support and principal developer. Based in Lancaster, UK, Sam is known for mentoring developers, running practical workshops, and removing process friction to boost productivity and technical quality. He also experiments with Electron, Meteor and Atom extensions, reflecting a curiosity for developer tooling beyond core e-commerce stacks. Practical, client-focused and growth-oriented, he helps brands translate digital vision into dependable, repeatable engineering outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Computing at University of Cumbria
English
Github Skills (12)
tarantool10
php10
adobe10
magento10
ecommerce10
configurator10
affiliates9
reminder1
timer1
time-management1
task-manager1
taskbar1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Scarraban/magento2-configurator
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Magento 2 Configurator
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
configuratormagento-2magento2-modulemagento2magento2-extension
Scarraban/electron-epos
Aug 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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