Scott Cariss
Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolScott Cariss is a Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput web systems and leading engineering teams from London. He has delivered large-scale customer-facing platforms—most notably a UK FMCG loyalty scheme serving 1M+ registered users, 3M+ monthly transactions and an API-driven code-on-pack system that generated over a billion unique codes—while driving migrations to AWS, automated deployments and GDPR-safe data practices. Comfortable across infrastructure, backend and operations, Scott has mitigated DDOS events, managed 50TB+ critical storage and sustained high email deliverability for millions of addresses. Fast to learn new technologies, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership, having grown and coached teams and introduced robust release and security practices.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
6 A-C GCSEs, Electronics, Maths, Double Science, ITC, 6 A-C GCSEs, Electronics, Maths, Double Science, ITC at Bridlington Secondary SchoolNational Diploma, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, National Diploma, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at York Technical CollegeHonours Degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Honours Degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Leeds Beckett University
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Github Skills (130)
ubuntu-server10
ubuntu10
homeserver10
backend10
wordpress10
nas10
twitter9
laravel9
linux9
ansible9
linux-distribution9
woocommerce9
python9
composer9
ssh9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
l3rady/wp-updates-notifier
Dec 2012 - Jan 2020
Sends email to notify you if there are any updates for your WordPress site. Can notify about core, plugin and theme updates.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 64 commits in 7 years 1 month
theme-updateswordpressplugin-coreemailupdates
l3rady/object-cache-apcu
Jun 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 11 commits in 5 years 4 months
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