Rich Scott
Senior Software Engineer at G-Research Open Source Software
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Scott is a Senior Software Engineer based in Denver with eight years focused on cloud-native deployment tooling and large Kubernetes cluster operations. He builds and optimizes production-grade systems using Go, Postgres, Redis, Pulsar and container tooling, and has hands-on experience improving build and CI processes for multi-cluster batch systems like Armada. His background spans senior roles at G-Research OSS, F5 Cloud, and product teams at McGraw-Hill and Airvet, giving him a mix of infrastructure, backend, and DevOps expertise. Notably, he’s tackled platform-specific test and CI issues (including macOS and Go version quirks) and created CLI tooling to integrate message pipelines into local development flows.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Jamestown College
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
pulsar10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
testing9
backend8
back-end-development8
github-ci7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
armadaproject/armada
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A multi-cluster batch queuing system for high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:396 reviews, 24 commits, 128 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to improving the build and deployment process for the Armada project. They made changes to the local development setup, including adjusting configurations for Pulsar and modifying Docker Compose files. Additionally, the user addressed platform-specific issues in unit tests, particularly on macOS, and refactored the build process to use Docker Compose. Further contributions included creating a command-line client to generate Pulsar messages, and fixing several Go version-related issues in build scripts and CI configurations.
kubernetesmulti-clustergr-oss
G-Research/unicorn-history-server
May 2024 - Apr 2025
A service to store and provide historical data for K8S clusters using the Yunikorn scheduler
Contributions:158 reviews, 51 PRs, 44 pushes in 11 months
k8s
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