Galen Scovell
Senior Software Engineer (MTS 1) at TCGplayer (an eBay company)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGalen Scovell is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of engineering experience and a demonstrated knack for turning legacy systems into high-performance, cloud-native services. Based in Seattle, he has driven measurable business impact—building the highest-traffic .NET Core services at PayScale, delivering a paid API that generated significant recurring revenue, and optimizing global AB test infrastructure at SmartNews to achieve stringent latency SLOs. He excels in backend services, API design, and cost-conscious system architecture, frequently combining Kubernetes, SpringBoot/.NET Core, serverless patterns, and data pipelines to scale high-throughput workloads. Galen’s background in bioinformatics and data science gives him an uncommon edge in data-heavy engineering problems, and he consistently prioritizes maintainable, well-tested code that delights end users. Currently advancing platform and service reliability at TCGplayer, he’s known for pragmatic optimizations that cut costs and latency while improving observability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology at University of OregonAssociate’s Degree, Transfer to University of Oregon, Associate’s Degree, Transfer to University of Oregon at Lane Community College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
xinput9
agent-based-modeling8
dynamics8
switch7
simulation7
etch7
driver6
bluetooth6
nintendo5
controller5
bit4
sketch4
homebrew3
react2
language-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
galenscovell/Django-Microblogger
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 22 pushes in 3 months
galenscovell/Javascript-Snake
Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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