Summary
Scot Kelly is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with over a decade of experience designing and leading software efforts across gaming, finance, advertising, non-profit, transportation, and analytics domains. He excels as a development lead and coach, driving agile and XP practices, mentoring teams and other coaches, and leading transformations in both embedded and coaching roles. Deeply experienced with Microsoft technologies, he consistently bridges hands-on implementation with technical leadership on mid-to-large projects. His career includes stints building mission-critical systems for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Flexcar, and long-running contributions inside Microsoft’s Developer Division. Known for teaching Agile planning and engineering practices, he brings a calm, practiced approach to improving engineering tooling and delivery. Based in Seattle, he combines broad domain exposure with a specialty in Microsoft platforms and a continual curiosity about other languages and ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer