Cody Scott
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Scott is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems, leading teams, and improving CI/CD and build infrastructure across embedded and enterprise domains. As Lead Software Developer at Giatec and earlier roles at Perspexis and Wind River, he has blended hands-on development with test and deployment automation to deliver robust, production-ready software. An active open-source contributor, Cody has improved documentation and user experience for notable projects like the Python-powered shell xonsh and helped modernize testing and bootstrapping for the VOLTTRON distributed control platform. He also contributed UI enhancements to Ninja-IDE and practical PyQt5 packaging examples for pynsist, showing a rare combination of DevOps, developer tooling, and UI polish. Based in the Greater Ottawa area and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Lakehead University, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a knack for making complex developer workflows simpler.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Lakehead University
Github Skills (25)
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docker10
python10
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testing10
ide10
bash10
editor10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
pyqt10
sh10
qml10
xonsh10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
takluyver/pynsist
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Build Windows installers for Python applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 92 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Cody contributed significantly to the project by adding a PyQt5 QML example, including the creation of QML, JavaScript, and Python files. They then added documentation to explain how to run the installed application in the Command Prompt. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug in the example and adjusted environment variables to allow for python libraries installed.
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VOLTTRON/volttron
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
VOLTTRON Distributed Control System Platform
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 38 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily focused on cleaning up and improving the project's build and test infrastructure. This involved refactoring shell scripts related to CI/CD integration, specifically for test execution and docker-based testing. Furthermore, the user contributed to the project's build system by modifying the bootstrapping process and import statements. The user demonstrated a focus on streamlining testing and improving the overall robustness of the build process.
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