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Scott C.
About
Dynamic software architect & leader with a proven track record of impact in enterprise, startup, and deep tech teams. Skilled in building high-availability solutions and core AI tech from edge to distributed systems.
An experienced and engaged software engineer having a strong customer focus, I am an expert at breaking down and solving complex software problems across the full stack and multiple domains. I thrive on collaboration with my team, and take pride in my ability to clearly communicate with stakeholders and customer, while mentoring junior engineers and continuously improving team velocity.
Because of my broad/deep full-stack experience with focus on backend (including machine learning and data pipelines), combined with my superpowers of building/growing teams and converting ambiguous user stories to design and actionable/scoped units of work (and then seeing those through to completion), I am able to make a resounding impact, starting on day one, in any organization.
Specialties: Core System Software Design and Development; Microservice Architectures; Monitoring and Alerting; Big Data; Performance; Numeric Analysis; Data Analysis; Team Building and Mentorship; Software Development Lifecycle; Continuous integration and improvement.
Work Experience
Spearhead innovation in agentic computing and natural intelligence, driving cutting-edge advancements.
Propel research and development in Bayesian and active inference, enhancing our technological edge.
Play a pivotal role in shaping global AI standards and protocols, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
Collaborate closely with product teams to deliver high-impact solutions that meet critical deadlines.
Lead through consensus-building while maintaining active involvement in hands-on engineering tasks.
Foster team growth and development, ensuring a cohesive and productive work environment.
In this role, I contributed to the development of first-of-it's kind, world-class software that solves for orchestrating industry-leading controlled-environment agriculture systems. I focused heavily on foundational patterns, system design and inter/intra team collaboration / growth at all levels through a combination of leading by example and mentorship.
ā¢ Designed and integrated complicated orchestration and UX within multiple automated factories, including defining APIs and protocols.
ā¢ Held direct responsibility for software and UX/testing of the grow system of a massive new factory through commissioning (~20 robots).
ā¢ Modeled and implemented factory simulation framework and related load/integration testing workflows: Decreased test code volume by ~40%, time to write complex test scenarios by more than 50%, and volume of bugs (not related to incorrect requirements) to near zero.
ā¢ Developed best practices and foundational code enabling rapid modeling/development and unit-testing of actors and behavior trees.
ā¢ Designed and implemented models underlying the replacement of an SQF audit system including the ETL pipeline that powered the cutover.
ā¢ Worked closely with infrastructure to define/audit/refine monitoring and alerting across the factories, as well as continuous integration.
ā¢ Guided work of several Scrum groups/projects, including leading design and code reviews. Turned user stories into scoped requirements. Proactively worked through ambiguity with stakeholders to keep Scrums unblocked and increase velocity.
ā¢ Proposed and drove adoption of healthy and productive SDLC practices, and estimation across the company. Mentored engineers and managers across the company, including embedded and controls engineers, driving quality improvements (e.g. PRs, CM, RCA, etc).