Scott Beslow
Lead Software Engineer at Discovery Education
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolScott Beslow is a lead software engineer based in Chicago with 12 years of experience building data-driven web and backend systems across ed-tech, research, startups, and telecom. At Discovery Education he architects tools that streamline content ingestion, metadata, and media recommendation workflows, pairing product empathy for editorial teams with scalable engineering. His background spans Python/Django data platforms, Java-based rapid prototyping for startups, and low-level C++ systems from a decade at Motorola, giving him a rare combination of high-throughput systems design and user-facing product integration. He’s comfortable leading teams, winning internal innovation grants, and shipping open-data civic projects—skills sharpened by running his own consultancy and active involvement in Chicago’s civic-hack community. An MS in Environmental Engineering and early GIS/field research work add an unusual cross-disciplinary perspective to his approach to data, systems, and real-world problems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Environmental Engineering, MS, Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (15)
water9
breakout8
ecology7
soil6
recycling6
javascript6
gradient6
climate-change5
python4
machine-learning3
forecasting3
crowdsourcing3
react3
science3
data-science2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
open-city/chicago-river-sewage
Dec 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:67 commits, 9 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 6 months
chicagoriver
open-city/water
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Projects for the water team
Contributions:30 commits, 20 pushes in 2 months
water
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