Sam Gooch is a Sitecore-certified developer with 10 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining .NET-based web platforms, currently delivering Sitecore solutions for McCarthy Stone. He combines front-end skills (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SASS) with strong back-end expertise in .NET Core, C#, T-SQL and RESTful APIs, and has practical DevOps experience with TeamCity, Octopus and Azure DevOps. A former co-founder and technical director, he brings product-minded thinking to engineering and has helped shape agile and DevOps practices at agencies. Sam contributes to open-source work on the Merchello e-commerce package for Umbraco, focusing on backend reliability and date/query handling—an indication of his attention to edge cases and defensive coding. Based in Sandbach, UK, he also explores Web3 and Solidity, showing a readiness to apply emerging blockchain tooling alongside established enterprise stacks.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing, 2:1, BSc (Hons) Computing, 2:1 at Sheffield Hallam University
BTEC National Diploma, IT Practitioner, DMM, BTEC National Diploma, IT Practitioner, DMM at South Cheshire College
Merchello is an open source e-commerce package for the Umbraco CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:38 commits, 27 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the Merchello e-commerce package, focusing on back-end improvements and bug fixes. Their work included enabling sorting for date fields, fixing reports to include the entire day and time in queries, and addressing null reference errors. The user also added functionality for create dates to offers and enhanced extension methods with defensive coding, demonstrating a focus on improving the core functionality and reliability of the e-commerce platform.
Merchello is an open source e-commerce package for the Umbraco CMS
Contributions:11 PRs, 14 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 3 months
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Sam Gooch - Sitecore Developer (Contract) at McCarthy Stone