Summary
Scott Block is an engineering team lead and former founder with 13 years of experience building full-stack products and leading engineering teams across startups and growth-stage companies. He specializes in Ruby (with and without Rails) and JavaScript (primarily React), and brings additional hands-on experience in Python and Go to solve backend and systems challenges. At PatientIQ he combines people-focused leadership with pragmatic engineering to deliver software that addresses real user needs, drawing on prior management and senior engineering roles at Compass and Contactually. As a co-founder of VentureBoard he scaled a platform to 25+ colleges and $125k ARR, demonstrating a knack for product-market fit and operational growth beyond pure engineering. He also maintains maker instincts—publishing a tool called phonetonote on GitHub—and enjoys the fast-paced problem solving and uncertainty of startup environments. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a track record of shipping user-focused, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park