Chris Scutcher
Senior System Software Developer at NVIDIA
South Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Scutcher is a Senior System Software Developer with 12+ years building resilient Python and Linux-first systems across embedded, cloud and telepresence domains. He has led architecture and delivery at Cisco—taking prototypes to global production—while now contributing system software at NVIDIA, blending deep low-level experience with modern DevOps and ML prototyping. A pragmatic full‑stack engineer, he designs stable long‑running agents, APIs and integration tests, and has hired and mentored many of his former colleagues into high‑functioning remote teams. An active open‑source contributor, he’s improved Pelican’s plugin ecosystem (notably permalinks and git-based timestamps) and runs a complex home lab that fuels his interests in crypto, machine learning and hardware making.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Beths Grammar School, BexleyMEng Computer Engineering 2:1 Evolutionary Computing Biologically Inspired GIS Embedded, MEng Computer Engineering 2:1 Evolutionary Computing Biologically Inspired GIS Embedded at University of Southampton
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
git10
pelican10
python10
architecture9
architectures9
hashlib8
base647
jenkins6
zcml6
zope6
celery6
jenkins-pipeline6
bash5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
getpelican/pelican-plugins
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on extending the functionality of the Pelican plugin system by introducing new features and improving existing components. They implemented a permalinks plugin, enabling persistent links for content. Furthermore, the user refactored the `filetime_from_git` module, improving its compatibility and adding features like following file renames and generating permalinks. These changes show improvements to the content generation workflow within the Pelican static site generator.
pelican-static-site-generatorstatic-sitesite-generatorpelicanstatic-site-generator
cscutcher/cscutcher.github.io.pelican
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 71 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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