Al Scott
Staff Software Engineer at Gambyt
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAl Scott is a Staff Software Engineer in Denver with 14 years of experience designing and delivering web applications using Java/Kotlin, JavaScript, and Ruby. He blends hands-on backend engineering and architecture with product-focused project management, having held technical leadership roles including CTO and Principal Software Developer at Campspot. An experienced contributor to production-ready libraries, he improved task handling in the popular Dropwizard framework to enable request-body-aware tasks and updated its examples and docs. Comfortable leading teams and shipping reliable services, he has a track record of modernizing applications and practices from his consulting work through to senior in-house roles. Collected expertise across full-stack web, cloud services, and agile delivery makes him effective at turning complex requirements into pragmatic, well-tested solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Detroit Mercy
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Github Skills (13)
dropwizard10
javas10
restful10
rest-services10
webservice10
java10
testing10
jersey-framework9
web-framework9
jax-rs9
junit8
javascript6
sinon6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/dropwizard
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Al primarily contributed to the `dropwizard/dropwizard` repository by implementing and refactoring core functionalities related to task handling. They modified the `TaskServlet` and `PostBodyTask` classes to allow tasks to access the request body. Furthermore, the user added an example `PostBodyTask` to the example application and updated documentation. These changes involved modifications to test cases and the addition of supporting classes, like `EchoTask`.
production-readyweb-services-restfulrestful-webservicesjax-rsproduction
scottaj/old-emacs-config
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:89 commits, 1 push in 3 years
emacsconfigemacs-config
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