Founder
Justin Porter
Founder & Chief Solutions Architect
Connecting the
storefront to everything
behind it.
Justin founded Text Connects in 2001 and is certified as a Shopify Development Expert. His work spans ecommerce builds, replatforming, custom applications, and systems integration.
Focus
- Commerce architecture
- Shopify
- Systems integration
Behind the work
A business built on solving problems.
Justin is the Founder of Text Connects and is certified as a Shopify Development Expert. His interest in computers began in high school when he founded the company to serve a hungry market of small businesses with less than ten employees and a list of computer issues.
Today, more than 25 years later, Justin has been involved in the building, deployment or replatforming of more than 300 Shopify stores for startups and recognized brands, as well as custom application development and systems integration, for more than 250 clients from “mom and pop” to enterprise-level.
An aviation perspective.
He graduated from Daniel Webster College with a degree in Aviation Flight Operations. His studies led him to appreciate the importance of safety and risk mitigation that carryover in his work today. It also earned him what amounts to a second major in computer science, courtesy of his computer-science-major roommates.
As a Pilot-in-Command, Second-in-Command, and flight instructor, Justin has nearly 10,000 hours in the cockpits of single-engine, multi-engine, and turbojet aircraft.