Dan Scott
Cloud Software Development Engineer at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Scott is a Cloud Software Development Engineer at Intel with four years of experience strengthening platform security through hands-on contributions to the CHIPSEC framework. He combines firmware and cloud-focused development—drawing on prior UEFI BIOS engineering and military communications roles—to harden Intel platforms and improve security tooling. Dan’s open-source work on CHIPSEC includes refactoring input handling, cleaning up legacy code, and maintaining cross-file consistency, demonstrating attention to secure-by-design practices. Based in the Portland metro area, he brings practical operational experience from the US Army to secure systems engineering, with a BS in Computer Science from Portland State University. Colleagues can expect a pragmatist who values maintainability and subtle code-quality improvements that reduce long-term risk.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Clackamas Community College
Github Skills (4)
python10
security-scan10
security10
firmware9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chipsec/chipsec
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Platform Security Assessment Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 559 reviews, 49 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan made several contributions focused on improving and maintaining the CHIPSEC framework, a platform security assessment tool. Their commits include updating copyright years across multiple files, refactoring input confirmation logic for enhanced security and replacing outdated input functions for code cleanup. The user also removed and added back imports, replaced error logging and updated formatting.
security-toolsfirmwaresecurityfirmware-toolssecurity-platform
dscott90/chipsec_fork
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Platform Security Assessment Framework
Contributions:118 pushes, 66 branches in 2 years 9 months
securityassessmentsecurity-toolssecurity-platform
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