Scot Wilcox
Senior Software Engineer at Higharc
Payson, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScot Wilcox is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance geometry and CAD software, now focused on computational geometry at Higharc. He prefers Rust for its safety and speed, has significant experience stabilizing complex C++ codebases, and contributed async iteration support to the widely used redis-rs Rust client. At Coreform and Vectorworks he diagnosed and fixed elusive crashes, memory corruption, and CI issues, and he’s comfortable shipping urgent patches and architecting robust test systems. His background in isogeometric analysis and finite element integration gives him uncommon domain expertise at the intersection of simulation and modeling. Based in Payson, Utah, he values remote roles that prioritize technical fit and meaningful mission work.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
async-await10
rust10
redis10
data-structures8
data-structure8
command-line-interface6
cli6
command-line6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
redis-rs/redis-rs
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Redis library for rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Scot primarily focused on implementing asynchronous iteration capabilities within the redis-rs library. This involved adding `AsyncIter` functionality and integrating it with existing commands like `SCAN`, `SSCAN`, and `ZSCAN` to enable asynchronous data retrieval. The commits demonstrate an understanding of async programming, likely using Rust's `async/await` features. The user also modified code to ensure proper cursor handling and integration of asynchronous operations with existing connection implementations.
rustredisredis-library
swilcox3/kafka-cad
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Real-time collaborative architectural CAD in your browser. Based on Kafka, gRPC, Redis, and OpenCASCADE.
Contributions:88 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 9 months
rediscadbrowseropencascadegrpc
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