Scott Busche
Lead Developer At Government Client at Accenture
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolScott Busche is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building and leading high-scale, cloud-native systems from Des Moines, Iowa. He currently serves as a Staff Software Engineer at John Deere and previously led technical strategy for a 50-person Accenture program powering public APIs that handle millions of requests daily. Comfortable across the stack, Scott has delivered resilient microservices with Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Redis while also working with modern front-end frameworks like React and Next.js. He contributes to open-source projects, improving developer-facing tools and dependency management — notable work includes UI enhancements to the popular Refined GitHub extension and Gradle/Kotlin support in Dependabot Core. Scott is as focused on architecture and operational excellence as he is on mentoring teams and driving pragmatic, test-driven engineering practices. His background in both enterprise modernization and hands-on feature development gives him a rare blend of delivery-first leadership and deep technical craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA Management Information Systems, BA Management Information Systems at University of Northern IowaA.A. Management Information Systems, A.A. Management Information Systems at North Iowa Area Community College
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Github Skills (27)
kotlin10
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
javascript10
github10
dependency-analysis10
browser-extension10
css10
user-interface10
chrome-extension10
java10
javas10
opera-extension10
webextension10
gradlew10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
refined-github/refined-github
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
:octocat: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 46 commits, 75 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the enhancement and maintenance of the browser extension's user interface and functionality. Their commits focused on adding new features to the GitHub interface, such as a "Commented by you" filter and a "Compare" tab. They also addressed bugs, including fixing errors on the Compare page and the Trending menu item. These changes were implemented through modifications to the extension's content scripts, CSS, and page detection logic.
browserchromefirefox-addonbrowser-extensionsafari-extension
dependabot/dependabot-core
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the `dependabot-core` repository, primarily focusing on enhancing Gradle integration. Their work involved adding support for Kotlin plugins, modifying Gradle file parsing, and updating corresponding tests. They also performed refactoring and simplification tasks, improving code maintainability. The commits demonstrate a focus on the Gradle ecosystem and dependency management.
dependenciespythonelmorgslogic
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