Preston Skaggs
Senior Software Engineer at ParentSquare
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Skaggs is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building and scaling web applications across Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, and cloud-native stacks. He has delivered production systems at companies like ParentSquare and LegitScript, tackling scalability, DevOps, and database work with MySQL/Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS. His background is unusually interdisciplinary: prior roles as a chemist and environmental project manager bring rigorous experimental method, data analysis, and regulatory discipline to software problem-solving. A former USAF aircraft technician, he also contributes operational reliability and maintenance-minded attention to detail. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure, he excels at troubleshooting and cross-team communication while turning complex requirements into pragmatic, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Oregon State University
English
Github Skills (21)
elastic9
backend8
rubynlp8
ruby8
operation7
pagekit7
integrations7
mongodb7
elasticsearch7
nodejs6
fieldtype6
react5
php5
javascript4
cms4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PSkaggs/operationcode_backend
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
operationbackendnodejsmongodb
PSkaggs/vwm_polls
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
expressionenginefieldtypepoll
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