Myron Scott
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Orinda, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMyron Scott is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of professional experience building distributed systems and backend infrastructure, now on the IBM engineering team in Orinda, California. He spent over a decade at Software AG as a Principal Software Engineer and earlier ran his own consulting and IT services firms, bringing deep practical experience in Java, C, databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and legacy/SAP integrations. Myron has contributed to prominent open-source infrastructure projects like Ehcache 3.x, focusing on clustering, message handling and replication in the caching server core. He blends enterprise-grade architecture skills with hands-on coding and testing discipline, routinely updating dependencies and stabilizing complex test configurations. Uncommonly for a seasoned engineer, his academic background is in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley, reflecting a cross-disciplinary curiosity that informs his systematic approach to problem solving. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic designs that bridge legacy systems and modern distributed services.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, BA, Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (11)
message-bus10
message-handler10
javas10
messaging10
ehcache10
clustering10
messagebox10
java10
message-system10
jtest9
junit9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ehcache/ehcache3
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Ehcache 3.x line
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 61 commits, 90 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Myron primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Ehcache 3.x line, focusing on internal server components. The commits indicate work related to the clustering server, message handling, and replication. The user also updated dependencies, integrated changes from other components and addressed issues in test configurations.
ehcache
Terracotta-OSS/terracotta-apis
Dec 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 203 commits, 150 PRs in 5 years 7 months
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