Scott Atkins
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Hugo, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Atkins is a seasoned software development engineer with 13 years of experience building and deploying mobile and embedded software at scale, currently driving features for Fire TV and Amazon Relay at Amazon. His background spans iOS and Android app development for consumer platforms like SmartThings and Garmin, plus earlier work in gameplay C++ and printer testing at Microsoft, giving him a rare blend of product-facing mobile expertise and low-level systems experience. He has shipped software that runs on millions of devices and is comfortable across native mobile stacks, J2ME-era constraints, and large-scale consumer hardware. Based in Hugo, Minnesota, Scott pairs a disciplined engineering approach with an active lifestyle—aptly summarized by his GitHub motto "eat, run, code!"—which informs his pragmatic, performance-minded development style.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesGeneral High School Education, General, General High School Education, General at Lennox High School
Github Skills (36)
json-database10
json9
overlay9
hearthstone9
database8
widgets8
gnome-terminal7
scheme7
elm7
wpf7
rust6
representations6
color-scheme6
user-interface6
shell5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scottrick/df
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:26 releases, 6 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 2 months
scottrick/ld34
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 58 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 11 months
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