Will McCants

Will McCants was born and raised in old Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. He attended Porter-Gaud School and First Baptist Church School. Growing up, he spent his summers at a string of computer science camps, including a week-long video game development program at the University of North Carolina that planted the seed for everything he would build later.

After high school, Will felt unfit for the traditional four-year path. He enrolled at Trident Technical College instead and earned an aircraft assembly certificate through the ReadySC program, intending to start a career at the Boeing Charleston campus. He graduated on the Dean's List and was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honors society. While he waited on Boeing's notoriously slow hiring pipeline, he needed work to pay the bills.

Will joined MSI-Viking Gage in the fall of 2012 as an assistant in the shipping department of the Charleston laboratory. A month in, he was pulled aside to help list a few surplus items on eBay. That side task turned into a department: within a few years he was running auction bidding, sales management, large machinery repair, small electronics repair, and a four-person team that bought, refurbished, and resold industrial calibration and metrology equipment across the country.

When the open-source 3D printing wave hit in 2016, most of his spare energy moved to learning CAD modeling. That self-taught foundation became the bridge from used equipment into engineering. He joined the Applications Engineering team and spent the next several months in classrooms across the eastern US (Raleigh, Charlotte, Nashville, Atlanta, and Detroit) learning advanced modeling and inspection software including Calypso, DesignX GeoMagic, PolyWorks, SolidWorks, and ZEISS Optotechnik 3D scanning systems. Within a year he transitioned from student to instructor, traveling to customer sites to perform demos, write proposals, and teach those same systems to engineers nationwide.

In March of 2020, Will performed a reverse-engineering demo at a manufacturer whose engineering team had just returned from overseas. One engineer was under the weather and could not attend. Within days, Will and many of his Charleston coworkers were sick too. He continued working through the pandemic and finally retired from the road in November 2020.

Will took a new opportunity in Mitchell County, North Carolina as Senior Engineer at PRC Industries, an Amazon remanufacturing partner operating out of the former Henredon Furniture facility in Spruce Pine, a one-million square-foot campus. PRC processes returns and restores defective products for major brands and retailers, everything from refrigerators and vacuums to sporting goods, with a team of engineers diagnosing product flaws through total disassembly and reverse engineering. Will wrote remanufacturing procedures, reverse-engineered replacement parts, and collaborated with outside engineering teams on client projects. The role sharpened his ability to diagnose unfamiliar hardware quickly, a skill that carries directly into the work WildTech does today.

He lived in a log cabin in Little Switzerland and drove the Blue Ridge Parkway along the Altapass every morning and evening. That daily drive sparked a love for nature and wildlife photography that still shapes how he works and lives today. After about a year of the quiet mountain life, Will was ready for the next chapter. During Christmas break of 2021 he ran into his old boss at MSI while visiting his parents. The conversation turned into an offer to come back to Charleston as Director of E-Commerce, and he started back in January 2022.

Will returned to MSI-Viking Gage in January 2022 as Director of E-Commerce. The company had recently moved to Oracle NetSuite for ERP, which gave him an excuse to start learning SuiteScript and JavaScript. Once he was inside the rabbit hole, he kept going. Over the following year he wrote small Windows programs to automate manual repricing and other operational drudgery, which freed the team to focus on actual selling.

Today he oversees multi-channel operations across msi-viking.com, Amazon, eBay, and Shopify, serves as the company's NetSuite administrator, manages a multimillion-dollar product inventory, and produces all product photography and video content in-house. Under his leadership, the team cut freight costs by over 40 percent while achieving consistent three-day delivery windows on in-stock inventory.

Will founded WildTech Ventures, LLC in 2024 as a private software and technology company. Every product since has started the same way: a real problem he or someone close to him ran into, and a feeling that the existing solutions were missing something obvious. Alongside the WildTech-owned products that anchor the portfolio, Will also takes on private client engagements, most of which are covered under NDA and cannot be publicly attributed.

Around the same time, Will and his wife had started attending and volunteering at a large local church. The church was blessed with resources but, like most congregations, was drowning in the chaos of modern communication. Small groups ran over iMessage threads that had to be rebuilt every time a member joined or left. Volunteer teams lived in GroupMe with no permissions, where important announcements scrolled away within hours. Church-wide updates required a Facebook or Instagram account, which meant guys avoiding social media for very real reasons were missing signups for things like men's hikes.

In early 2024, Will hand-wrote five pages on a yellow legal pad envisioning a platform built specifically for the church, designed to honor God and protect the people using it. He tucked the pages in a drawer after peers told him it would take a team of engineers and hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a functional beta. A year later, during a late-night conversation on a family vacation, his brother (his most honest critic) told him his only criticism was the hesitation. Will started building it himself the next morning.

The project went by the working title FindFellowship for the first ten months while he saved up for the domain. By the time he first thought he had enough, the price had climbed past two thousand dollars and he still had more saving to do. At 12:15 AM on March 14, 2026, after a fourteen-hour day, WildTech Development bought churchd.com. Churchd has been Will's primary mission since then. Built and self-funded by him, hosted at his own cost, with a firm commitment: no subscriptions, no advertising, no influencer partnerships, ever.

In May of 2026, during his introduction into a local men's society, Will was handed a worn-out pocket copy of the US Constitution by a dear friend and mentor. The book mattered enough to the man that he had chosen to include it in his Presidential portrait, which would hang in the Hall alongside the likenesses of past society presidents reaching back to the turn of the 19th century. Will left that night wanting to carry a copy himself.

The App Store turned out to be a crocodile pit of subscription paywalls and ad-cluttered interfaces. He considered it his American duty to do better. The result is We The People: Your Rights, an app that pairs the original text with plain-English interpretations, side-by-side reading, and legal and court references with case summaries. Available to anyone, citizen or visitor, with no subscriptions, no advertising, no tracking, and no account required. Free, forever. His pride and privilege as an American to share.

His nieces and nephews call him “Gadget”, because there is always a project on the workbench, a 3D printer running, or some piece of technology being taken apart and put back together. That same restless curiosity is what drives WildTech.

WildTech Ventures grew out of the same mindset that has defined Will's entire career: see a problem, understand it deeply, and build something that fixes it. Every product in the WildTech portfolio started as a real problem that did not have a good enough solution.

Will met Brittany in the summer of 2022. They bonded quickly over their shared love for nature and their faith in Jesus, and were married on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 2024. Will and Brittany currently reside on James Island, South Carolina, where they are active members of Harbor View Presbyterian Church.

At Harbor View, Will volunteers on the handicap ramp building committee, hosts quarterly men's dinners, and plays guitar in the weekly worship service alongside Brittany, who sings in the choir.

When he is not building software, hardware, or businesses, Will spends his time behind a camera, playing guitar, hiking, or camping somewhere in the Lowcountry. He earned his FAA Private Pilot Certificate on September 19, 2012, after a stretch of training that had him seriously considering aviation as a full-time career. He chose instead to keep building his career at MSI-Viking Gage, and these days the flying is mostly for fun.