Summary
Scott Bushyhead is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput distributed systems and data pipelines, now working as a Challenger at Gauntlet AI after six years architecting catalog infrastructure at Fanatics. He designed and operated ingestion pipelines and AI-assisted validation services that manage a 10M+ product catalog, blending Elixir, Go, PostgreSQL, and AWS to ensure data integrity at scale. Scott is skilled at safe concurrency, idempotent workflows, and minimizing production impact through careful batch sizing and orchestration. His background at Hewlett-Packard in automation and monitoring informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and operational tooling. Based in the Tulsa metro area, he pairs strong cross-functional communication with a track record of shipping durable systems that reduce high-visibility errors. An interdisciplinary academic foundation (computational science and Latin American studies) hints at both analytical rigor and broader cultural curiosity that inform his collaborative problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Emphasis in Latin American Culture and Language, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Emphasis in Latin American Culture and Language at University of Oklahoma