Scott Simpson
LinkedIn Learning Instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Simpson is a LinkedIn Learning Instructor based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience creating practical technical video courses on Linux, IT, SQL, and Python. He combines classroom teaching at Stanford Continuing Studies with industry-facing content production, having written, produced, and delivered courses across LinkedIn and lynda.com. Beyond on-camera instruction, Scott builds developer-facing tooling—maintaining internal Python utilities, two browser extensions, and prototyping GitHub Codespaces templates—to make training interactive and reproducible. His background ranges from hands-on desktop and retail tech support at Apple to an MA in Education and studies in international security and philosophy, giving him a rare mix of pedagogy, systems-level troubleshooting, and interdisciplinary thinking. He focuses on turning complex operational topics into accessible, practice-oriented learning experiences.
10 years of coding experience
San Diego State University
English, German
Github Skills (27)
maintenance6
vertica5
maintenance-mode5
linkedin5
odbc5
cassandra4
linux4
foundations4
sql3
explore3
data-visualization3
data-analysis3
database3
sap-hana3
mysql3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LinkedInLearning/learning-linux-command-line-3005201
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
scottsimpson/scottsimpson.github.io
Apr 2022 - Jan 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:45 pushes in 1 year 9 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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