Jesse Scott
Senior Software Engineer at Autodesk
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Scott is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 16 years building reliable backend systems, developer tooling, and DevOps workflows. He spent a decade-plus at Puppet advancing core deployment and module tooling—adding security, proxy and signature features to r10k and improving Puppet Forge and PMT interactions—before moving into engineering management and now senior engineering at Autodesk. Jesse blends hands-on backend coding with test automation and QA improvements, having strengthened rspec-puppet coverage and added practical features like regex filters and parallel coverage tests. He’s comfortable across the deployment lifecycle, from Git and proxy integrations to user-facing CLI output and parser validation fixes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, safety-minded changes that improve observability and maintainability in infrastructure software. His background in web architecture and a dual BS in Computer Science and Journalism gives him a practical, communicative approach to complex engineering problems.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Journalism, BS, Computer Science, Journalism at Walla Walla College
Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
git10
puppeteer10
puppet10
rspec10
ruby10
api10
test-automation10
faraday9
json9
devops9
regular-expression9
apim8
yaml7
apidoc7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/r10k
May 2015 - May 2017
Smarter Puppet deployment
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:161 commits, 155 PRs, 89 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to adding support for authorization headers to Forge connections, enhancing the security of interactions. They implemented machine-readable format options and a fetch option to improve the "deploy display" action. Furthermore, they added code signatures to deployments and incorporated proxy configuration for Git operations. These changes involved modifying core deployment, git, and puppetforge functionalities.
deploymentsmarterpuppet
rodjek/rspec-puppet
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
RSpec tests for your Puppet manifests
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 24 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on enhancing the test coverage of the `rspec-puppet` library. Their contributions included refactoring existing tests, adding new unit tests for coverage functionality, and implementing features such as regex-based filters. They also added a basic unit test for parallel test coverage scenarios and improved the formatting of coverage report output. These changes aimed to improve the reliability and maintainability of the Puppet testing framework.
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