Scott Bigelow
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Bigelow is a seasoned systems architect and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and blockchain systems, now focused on Solidity smart contracts and Ethereum tooling. He has led engineering teams at companies like New Relic and Amberdata and driven operations at scale—managing hundreds of systems and production microservices through CI/CD and configuration automation. An active open-source contributor, Scott has worked on notable Ethereum projects such as Flashbots (implementing bundle submission and simulation support) and Augur, bridging low-latency back-end engineering with on-chain transaction orchestration. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he combines deep systems engineering roots (UNIX administration and DevOps) with hands-on blockchain development, often tackling hard problems at the intersection of cryptoeconomics and production reliability.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityClackamas Community College
Github Skills (32)
uniswap10
javascript10
solidity10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
ethersjs10
typescript10
flash10
arb10
api10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
typescripts10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
flashbots/ethers-provider-flashbots-bundle
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Flashbots provider for ethers.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 112 commits, 81 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott significantly contributed to the `ethers-provider-flashbots-bundle` repository by implementing core features related to Flashbots bundle submission and simulation. Their work includes defining interfaces, implementing methods for sending and simulating bundles, and integrating API key authentication. They also added API support and refactored internal functionalities. This user also worked on setting up a demo of this Flashbots bundle provider.
providerethereumethers-jsflashbotsethers
flashbots/simple-arbitrage
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Example arbitrage bot using Flashbots
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 28 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of an arbitrage bot. They worked on the core logic for identifying profitable arbitrage opportunities across different decentralized exchanges by interacting with smart contracts. This included implementing functions to calculate token prices, execute trades, and interact with Flashbots for transaction bundling. Key changes included modifying core arbitrage logic, adjusting gas estimations, and integrating health check functionality.
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