Scot Dalton
Senior Engineering Manager at The Rounds
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScot Dalton is a Senior Engineering Manager based in New York with 14 years of experience building and leading teams that ship customer-focused web applications. He blends hands-on engineering (Scala, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, PostgreSQL) with operational cost-saving moves—having launched Kubernetes on DigitalOcean to halve infrastructure costs and sped deployment pipelines significantly. A mentor and people manager, he has raised testing coverage from near-zero to production-grade levels and coached teams in TDD and Git workflows. His background spans startups and larger institutions, from co-founding Everist to modernizing NYU Libraries’ web services and leading engineering at Updater. Scot pairs an MS in Computer Science and an MPA in International Development with a strong quantitative foundation in mathematics, which informs his pragmatic, user-centered product thinking. He wakes up excited to build tools that help real people solve real problems and consistently focuses on measurable impact behind the scenes.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at New York UniversityBA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at New York University College of Arts and SciencesMaster of Public Administration International Development, Master of Public Administration International Development at New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service New
Github Skills (110)
service-provider10
vagrant9
istanbul9
packer9
coverage9
resolver9
docker9
code-coverage9
linux8
golang8
letsencrypt8
single-source8
terraform8
reverse-proxy8
load-balancer8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NYULibraries/getit
Sep 2012 - Oct 2014
NYU Libraries link resolver powered by Umlaut.
Contributions:1040 commits in 2 years 2 months
nyulinkumlautresolver
scotdalton/exlibris-aleph
Mar 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:201 commits in 2 years 4 months
ilsalephexlibris
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