Craig Scott
Founder, Software Engineering Consultant at Crascit Pty Ltd
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Scott is a seasoned software engineer and founder with over two decades of experience specializing in C++, Qt, and build systems—he is a co-maintainer of CMake and author of Professional CMake: A Practical Guide. He runs Crascit Pty Ltd, offering consulting across desktop, iOS and RTOS embedded platforms, and has delivered multi-threaded client/server systems, GUI frameworks, signal-processing algorithms and 2D/3D visualisation tools. Craig has led teams and entire software infrastructures, owning releases and driving development-process improvements that boost technical growth. An active contributor to the CMake project’s documentation, he combines deep hands-on engineering with a talent for clarifying complex tooling and making build ecosystems more accessible.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at RMIT University
Japanese
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Github Skills (11)
cmake10
sphinx10
documentation10
swig9
timeout9
cpack6
lambda6
ctest6
linux6
googletest6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/CMake
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:910 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily focused on improving the project's documentation by fixing formatting errors, enhancing consistency, and adding missing cross-references. They also updated the documentation to reflect new features, clarify existing functionality, and reorganize content for better readability and discoverability. The user's contributions centered on improving the quality and accessibility of the documentation, contributing to the overall usability and maintainability of the project.
cppcmakeupstream
Crascit/cmake-snap
Jun 2019 - Feb 2023
Builds the official CMake snap
Contributions:82 commits, 4 PRs, 165 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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