Scott Blanch
Senior Software Engineer at Ancestry
Lehi, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Blanch is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building customer-facing web applications and internal platforms across companies like Ancestry and Zoom. He excels in React and Node.js ecosystems, champions clean state management, pragmatic testing (TDD/BDD), and streamlined developer workflows using Docker and automation. Known for improving product quality—twice part of Ancestry’s Top Quality Team—and shipping greenfield features such as Zoom Events’ networking canvas, he balances hands-on coding with mentoring and hiring. Scott prefers using the right tool for the job, drives cross-team collaboration, and has a track record of reducing setup friction (local dev times cut from hours to minutes) to accelerate teams.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
jestjs6
react6
javascript-framework6
mochajs6
nodejs6
inquirer6
java6
command-line-interface6
javascript6
react-native6
six5
api5
rest4
playback4
rest-api4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scottglenblanch/judging-green-is-so-dumb-for-real
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3555 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
scottglenblanch/modularize-terminal-commands
May 2019 - Apr 2021
Ability to modularize scripts, create bash scripts easily, and keep environment clean
Contributions:115 commits, 6 PRs, 150 pushes in 1 year 11 months
keepbash-scriptsabilitycleanbash
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