Scott Bonds
VP Of Engineering at HiHello, Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Bonds is a veteran engineering leader with two decades of experience building AI-powered consumer services across web, mobile, social and e-commerce channels, now serving as VP of Engineering in the Bay Area. He has scaled and monetized communities using freemium + ads, microtransactions, subscriptions and commerce models, leading teams up to 100 across startups and Fortune 500s. His background blends product-driven leadership with hands-on systems and DevOps work—evidenced by open-source contributions to projects like Idris and Chef that improved cross-platform support and package/service management on OpenBSD. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate with a Haas business minor, he pairs technical depth with commercial judgment and a knack for turning engagement into revenue.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science minor in Business Administration at Haas, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science minor in Business Administration at Haas at University of California, Berkeley
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Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Chef Infra repository by developing and refining the OpenBSD package provider. Their work involved modifying the provider to support double-dash package names, switching to using PKG_PATH, simplifying the provider's logic, and updating the code to add and improve service management. The changes ensure that Chef can correctly manage software packages on OpenBSD systems. The user also worked on implementing the service provider and associated tests.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
idris-lang/Idris-dev
Aug 2017 - May 2018
A Dependently Typed Functional Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the Idris-dev repository by addressing platform-specific dependencies and improving test suite compatibility. They added support for OpenBSD, modifying test scripts and build configurations to ensure proper execution on that platform. Furthermore, the user merged changes from the 'master' branch, indicating involvement in integrating contributions and maintaining the project's codebase. They also adjusted the diff options in test scripts for OpenBSD.
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