Scott Bailey
Software Engineer at GoDaddy
Troy, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Bailey is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years of experience specializing in automation, cloud engineering, and large-scale Linux systems management. He has designed and deployed "gold build" images, patch infrastructure, and documentation pipelines used across 100K+ hosts, driving measurable improvements in delivery speed, consistency, and auditability. At HPE, DXC and now GoDaddy he integrated Operations Orchestration with multi-vendor hardware (HPE, Cisco UCS) to automate bare-metal provisioning from weeks to hours and led a mass migration of Word docs to a Markdown/MkDocs/GitHub CI-driven workflow. His work blends deep systems knowledge with practical tooling—Jenkins checks, PostgreSQL migration playbooks, and regex-hardened security contributions to the popular ScoutSuite project—showing attention to both reliability and security. A committed mentor and documentation advocate based in Troy, Michigan, he excels at turning complex operational processes into repeatable, measurable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (9)
regular-expression10
audit10
aws-cloudformation10
cloud-security10
aws10
pytest10
auditing10
python10
security10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nccgroup/ScoutSuite
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott's primary contributions focused on enhancing the security auditing capabilities of the `scoutsuite` tool. They adjusted regular expressions to improve the accuracy of identifying sensitive information like AWS secrets. Additionally, they implemented and debugged unit tests for these regular expressions, and addressed issues related to undefined attributes in AWS CloudFormation stacks. This work directly contributes to the tool's ability to accurately identify potential security vulnerabilities within cloud environments.
gcpsecurity-toolssecuritycloudcloud-security
rscottbailey/truffleHog
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history
Contributions:38 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
repositoriessearchesdiggingentropystrings
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