Wouter Samaey
ECommerce Developer, Architect & Integrator
West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolWouter Samaey is an experienced eCommerce architect and hands-on developer with over a decade building high-end Magento and OpenMage platforms, custom PHP/MySQL backends, and integrations that prioritize usability and performance. As founder and technical lead at Storefront BV, he guides a small team delivering tailored solutions across ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker and cloud-hosted Linux stacks, while also driving integrations for the open-source BTCPay Server ecosystem. He contributes to the well-known OpenMage LTS project and BTCPayServer, improving core back-end flows and merchant-facing UI/checkout functionality—evidence of his comfort across full-stack, security-conscious commerce systems. Based in West Flanders, Belgium, he blends entrepreneurial experience from running agencies and international teams with a practical focus on maintainable, extensible architectures.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Network Administrator, Network Administrator at Sint-Jozefsinstituut, OostendeEntrepeneur Course, Entrepeneur Course at SyntraBachelor, Multimedia and Communicationstechnology, with specialisation in Multimedia, Bachelor, Multimedia and Communicationstechnology, with specialisation in Multimedia at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ecommerce10
ecommerce-application10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
ui-design10
magento10
asp-net10
uid10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
commerce10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
btcpayserver/btcpayserver
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Accept Bitcoin payments. Free, open-source & self-hosted, Bitcoin payment processor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 39 commits, 51 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wouter focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the BTCPayServer project. They implemented UI enhancements, including adding features like a "Checkout" button to the invoice detail page and improving the webhook UI. The user also worked on backend improvements, addressing issues related to SMTP configuration and auto-filling, and fixing typos in the API documentation. They also added testing functionality for payments.
point-of-salepaymentsselfhostedcrowdfundingbitcoin-payments
OpenMage/magento-lts
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Migrate easily from Magento Community Edition in minutes! Download the source code for free or contribute to OpenMage LTS | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 18 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Wouter contributed to the OpenMage LTS codebase, focusing on improvements and bug fixes related to the Magento e-commerce platform's back-end functionality. Their work includes changes to order processing, exception handling, and attribute management. They also implemented new events to extend the platform and improve its flexibility, in addition to refactoring certain methods. Several commits involved addressing issues with image generation, API functionality, and quote loading.
openmageecommerceshopwaresecurity-vulnerabilitycomposer
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