Alexander Scammon
Co-Chief Executive Officer at G-Research
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Scammon is a seasoned software leader and co-CEO with 13+ years building large-scale distributed and high-performance computing platforms. He leads Open Source Engineering at G-Research, directing a 30+ engineer team that contributes to critical projects like Apache Arrow, Parquet, Airflow, Armada and Spark integrations to power quantitative research and trading. As co-founder and CTO of Insight Softmax Consulting, he helps enterprises design and implement open source infrastructure and HPC solutions, pairing technical depth with go-to-market leadership. Known for an obsession with the mechanical sympathy between hardware and software, he blends systems-level performance tuning with pragmatic engineering processes and open source stewardship. Based in Oakland, he brings a rare mix of enterprise leadership, hands-on infrastructure craftsmanship, and a humanities background that informs his view of software as a social as well as technical discipline.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, History, Bachelor's degree, History at Harvard University
Github Skills (200)
apache-spark10
slurm10
k8s10
syncthing10
client-library10
big-data10
api10
net-library10
apache10
multi-cluster10
batch-processing10
python10
protocol-buffers10
r10
scale10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
stackedsax/superlumic
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
Superlumic is a light utility wrapper around Ansible to ease the automated install of OSX 10.10 and higher.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
macosansibleosxlight
stackedsax/mac-dev-playbook
Jul 2019 - Dec 2024
Mac setup and configuration via Ansible.
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 6 months
ansiblemacdotfilesmacosmac-setup
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