Scott Wilson
Founder at That Software Guy
Largo, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolScott Wilson is a founder and seasoned e-commerce software engineer with 13+ years running That Software Guy, delivering free, freemium, and premium plugins for Zen Cart and supporting platforms like osCommerce, OpenCart, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Shopify. He pairs deep backend PHP expertise—demonstrated by sustained contributions to high-profile projects such as Zen Cart and osCommerce—with product and project leadership experience from roles at Malwarebytes, Nielsen, and other enterprise teams. Comfortable moving between hands-on bug fixes and strategic product management, he has improved core order, shipping, and payment logic in open-source shipping and e-commerce libraries. Based in Largo, Florida, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a long history of maintaining critical e-commerce flows, and he often surfaces small UX wins through language and admin-area fixes that many developers overlook.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at McMaster University
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Github Skills (31)
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apidoc10
mysql10
ecommerce10
php10
api10
payment-processing10
xml10
image-processing9
xdebug9
r9
environment-variables9
object-oriented-programming9
linux9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zencart/zencart
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
Zen Cart® is a full-function e-commerce application for your website.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 139 reviews, 1526 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to back-end development tasks within the Zen Cart e-commerce application. Their work involved modifying PHP code in the admin area, including products price management, HTML email message fixes, duplicate class fixes, implementing store-defined order confirmation messages, and ensuring correct inclusion of CSS files. Additionally, the user fixed a PHP parse error and addressed code for the admin page.
commerce-applicationecommercecommercephpframework
gabrielbull/php-ups-api
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
PHP Wrapper for all UPS API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 16 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the `php-ups-api` repository by implementing features related to payment processing and shipment charge separation. They added the ability to separate transport and duty payors, modifying the `Shipping.php`, `ShipmentCharge.php`, and `ItemizedPaymentInformation.php` files to accommodate the changes. The user also addressed various style issues and code inspection comments, further refining the codebase. This involved handling different payment methods, including bill shipper, bill receiver, and third-party billing.
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