Scott Basgaard
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Kvinesdal, Agder, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Basgaard is a serial founder and technology strategist with 13 years of hands-on experience bridging web development and embedded sensing to turn real-world problems into operational products. As Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intoto, he grew a grassroots flood-monitoring pilot into a regional network that helps municipalities, hydropower operators, and communities make faster data-driven decisions about river and coastal risk. Grounded in a background building WordPress ecosystems for enterprise clients and contributing backend improvements to notable projects like WP-Job-Manager, he pairs product vision with pragmatic engineering. Based in Southern Norway after a journey from New Jersey and NYC, Scott combines startup grit, advisory experience at agencies like Dekode, and community-building initiatives such as a local co-working space to drive climate adaptation solutions that prioritize actionable insights.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brookdale Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
filter10
taxonomy9
shortcode9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/WP-Job-Manager
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Manage job listings from the WordPress admin panel, and allow users to post jobs directly to your site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the WordPress job manager. Their contributions included adding filters for shortcode outputs, allowing for more customization. They also added filters for taxonomy arguments and single job listing output, as well as correcting syntax errors related to image resizing. These modifications indicate a focus on extending the plugin's flexibility and refining its core logic.
job-listingsadmin-paneladminwordpressphp
scottbasgaard/p2-likes
Feb 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 10 months
threadscarefeedbacklikes
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