Scott Cantisani
Senior Software Engineer at UserTesting
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Cantisani is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years' experience building full-stack web applications, currently working at UserTesting after a progression from software roles focused on telephony, payments, and embedded-SIM testing. He brings strong Ruby on Rails and backend expertise (PostgreSQL, APIs) alongside Java and systems-level experience from eUICC security work, giving him a rare blend of web development and cryptography-aware engineering. Scott contributes to impactful open-source nonprofit tooling—enhancing role/permission systems for the rubyforgood CASA project—and enjoys pragmatic design practices like TDD and functional programming patterns. Based in Edinburgh, he’s motivated by work that helps people and aspires to contribute in the third sector, while pursuing web development and a broad set of hobbies from juggling to semi-fluent French that keep his problem-solving creative.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at The University of EdinburghEuropean Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate at European School of Brussels II
English, French
Github Skills (9)
pundit10
management10
manager10
ruby-rails10
rails10
manage10
casa10
ruby10
postgresql9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the back-end functionality of the application, specifically focusing on user roles and permissions within the volunteer management system. Their work included implementing methods to change user roles (supervisor to admin and admin to supervisor) and adding associated controller methods, routes, and policies. The user also modified the UI to include buttons for role changes and adjusted the database schema to reflect the changes in user roles. These changes enhance the application's administrative features.
servesyouthr4gmanagement-systemcasa
scantisani/lbc-expression-creator
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:52 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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