Bill Scott

Bill Scott is the VP Engineering, Merchant | Retail | Online Payments at PayPal where he leads the engineering organisation responsible for Retail, Merchant and Payment Engineering. Prior to that he was the head of UI Engineering at PayPal and Netflix. In a past life he co-created and designed one of the first successful Macintosh games, GATO, in 1985; built & designed wargaming systems for NATO; led user experience teams at Sabre & Meebo; co-wrote one of the first Ajax/JavaScript frameworks, OpenRico; and published the design pattern library at Yahoo! Bill is also a frequent speaker at conferences & workshops worldwide as well as the co-author of the O’Reilly book Designing Web Interfaces.