Jake Scott
Staff Software Engineer at Serverless Guru
Auckland Metropolitan Area New Zealand
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Top SchoolJake Scott is a Staff Software Engineer based in Auckland with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping cloud-native applications, specializing in AWS and serverless architectures. He brings polyglot expertise across Typescript, C#, Node.js, Go, and Rust, and a strong track record in automation, CI/CD, testing, and infrastructure that spans startups, enterprises, government, and agencies. At Serverless Guru he progressed from senior serverless developer to staff engineer, driving scalable, production-ready systems and developer productivity. His background includes senior roles at Xero and Rush Digital, reflecting a consistent focus on reliable full-stack delivery and operational excellence. Trained in Information Science from the University of Otago, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an appetite for newer systems languages and automation that reduce toil.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Information Science, Bsc, Information Science at University of OtagoMedia Design School
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Github Skills (200)
url-parsing10
serverless10
api10
windows10
terraform10
asp-net10
serverless-plugin10
serilog10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws-cloudformation10
mustache10
development-kit10
fastendpoints10
cloud-development-kit10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jakejscott/appsync-crud-sls-backend
May 2021 - Jun 2021
AppSync CRUD using serverless framework
Contributions:42 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 7 days
serverlessaws-lambdacrudawsserverless-framework
jakejscott/aws-cdk-phone-verify-api
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Phone verification service built using: AWS cdk, api gateway, dotnet, lambda, dynamodb, and sns
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
api-gatewayapidotnetphonephone-verification
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