Quinn Scripter
Vice President Of Engineering at Planet
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQuinn Scripter is a Vice President of Engineering with 13 years of software and leadership experience, specializing in cloud-native geospatial services and modernizing legacy systems for efficiency at scale. He has led engineering teams across government and commercial sectors, currently shaping Planet’s cloud strategy with expertise in Kubernetes, serverless architectures, and multi-cloud deployments. A hands-on leader who still contributes to code quality, Quinn has strengthened the widely used GeoServer project by implementing critical round-trip tests for WMS/WFS/WCS settings and controllers. His background spans technical roles from software engineer to director, and an MIT education in EECS underpins his systems-level approach. Outside software, he brings uncommon broadcast engineering experience supporting live major events, reflecting a capacity to operate reliably under high-stakes, real-time constraints.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
geoserver10
javas10
webmap10
java10
testing10
wcs9
rest-api9
wms9
wfs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:Quinn contributed significantly to the GeoServer project by implementing and enhancing round trip tests for core functionalities. This involved adding tests for LayerGroupInfo, WMSSettings, and potentially WFS and WCS settings, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the proper handling of configurations. Furthermore, the user's work included writing tests for the WMSSettingsController, and WFS and WCS settings controller implementations ensuring the system's reliability and functionality. The user's contributions involved code changes within test files across various modules.
wcswpswfsgeospatialgml
qscripter/tiered-fantasy-draft
Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years
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