My name is Scott Basgaard and welcome to my career log.

Intoto (January 1, 2020 – Present)

CTO & Founding Partner

Coverks (January 1, 2016 – Present)

Daily Manager and Co-Founder

The Look and Feel (January 1, 2016 – December 1, 2016 )

CEO & Founding Partner

Crowdcast (March 1, 2020 – September 1, 2020 )

During COVID-19 and the economic situation in the world I put my start-up on hold and joined Crowdcast as Head of Customer Success. I’ll never forget this experience and the insane period of growth we experienced over such a short period of time. I was able to use my experience again within support from WooThemes and helped grow and manage a team of 10.

Dekode (January 1, 2017 – December 1, 2019)

Technical Advisor and Sr. Developer

Human Made (April 1, 2014 – December 12, 2016 )

Project Technical Lead at Human Made to help deliver high-end, large-scale WordPress websites for our enterprise clients. Clients included Fusion.net, Airbnb.com, Colt.net, NewRepublic.com and more.

WooThemes (2012 – 2014)

At WooThemes I worked with the WooCommerce project as a support specialist.

I also helped support their premium themes on WordPress.com along with organizing WordSesh, an online WordPress conference.

Metronet (2011-2012)

After moving to Norway I worked at Metronet developing custom WordPress plugins and themes for clients.

I also helped organize the first WordPress Meetup and WordCamp in Norway.

WebDevStudios (2009 – 2011)

My first job out of college and what started it all in my WordPress career. I was the first developer hire at WebDevStudios and within my first weeks of working there I was attending WordCamp, submitting plugins to the WordPress.org plugin repository and committing code to WordPress core. My three years at WebDevStudios consisted of developing plugins and themes for a wide variety of clients, custom builds, large migrations to WordPress and on-going support. I give a lot of credit to Brad Williams for kickstarting my WordPress career and showing me the importance of giving back to the community.

Time Inc.

At Time Inc. I was the Sr. Front-end developer for EW.com. I also managed the EW.com blogs which were on WordPress VIP and the 10 most popular blogs on WordPress.com at the time.

Moving Interactive Inc.

I was contracted by Moving Interactive to launch the new RD.com (Reader’s Digest) and RDA.com site and re-design on WordPress.

CubicTwo LLC

Before Sucuri Security, Dre Armeda and Tony Perez ran a WordPress consulting company where I did contract work developing sites for clients.

Organizing Roles

Founded WordCamp Norway and current member of organizing team.

Founded Oslo WordPress Meetup.

Founded Stavanger WordPress Meetup.

Founded and organizer of Sørlandet WordPress Meetup.

Started and organizer of WordSesh.org, a 24-Hour Online WordPress event.

Other Business Ventures:

Founded a co-working space in Kvinesdal, Norway.

Other misc. links

WordCamps and other WordPress Events I’ve Attended / Spoken At

Mid Atlantic ’09 Chicago ’09 New York ’09 Boston ’10 Miami ’10 San Francisco ’10 New York ’10 Phoenix ’11 Norway ’12 New York ‘12 PRESSNOMICS ’12 Norway ‘13 Europe ‘13 Norway ‘14 Miami ’14 Denmark ’14 Europe ’14 Cape Town ’14 Norway ’15 Europe ’15 Norway ’16 Netherlands ’16 USA ’16 WP.com VIP Workshop ’17 Europe ’17 USA ’17 Norway ’18 WP.com VIP Workshop ’18 Europe ’19

If you have any questions please contact me at mail[at]scottbasgaard.com.