Adam Scott
Staff Software Engineer at PTC
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Scott is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 13 years building full-stack web applications, primarily specializing in Ruby on Rails and related backend tooling. He combines a strong focus on code quality and user experience with practical business-minded decision-making, shipping features across the stack from PostgreSQL and Redis-backed services to Ember.js and vanilla JavaScript front ends. His career spans startups and product teams—leading engineering at Zinc by ServiceMax, contributing full-stack features at CheckMate (including real-time and scaling concerns), and now driving platform work at PTC. Comfortable with both legacy stacks (Backbone, jQuery, PHP) and modern choices (Elixir/Phoenix exposure), he brings pragmatic migration and interoperability experience. A former music-business major turned engineer, he often bridges product, design, and ops perspectives to deliver measurable user and business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Music Business with Music Production emphasis, BBA Music Business with Music Production emphasis at Belmont UniversityBBA Marketing, BBA Marketing at University of Georgia - Terry College of Business
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Github Skills (101)
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emberjs9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cotap/reprepro
May 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
cookbookrepreprochef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
cotap/chef-stunnel
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Development repository for the chef-stunnel cookbook
Contributions:1 review, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cookbookstunnelchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
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