ScottĀ Carlson
Senior CI CD Engineer at Rise8
Vineyard, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Carlson is a Senior CI/CD Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend services and driving reliability and automation across fintech and proptech stacks. He has led migrations from monoliths to microservices, rebuilt core banking APIs for >1500 RPS, and introduced SRE practices and DDD at product-focused companies like USAA and Homie. Comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle, Scott blends hands-on coding (including open-source contributions to a popular music library manager) with mentoring and technical leadership that consistently improves team throughput and customer metrics. His background includes overseas systems and cybersecurity work for the U.S. Department of State, showing an ability to deliver under strict operational constraints. Now at Rise8, he focuses on CI/CD excellence and scalable platform engineering while continuing to champion observable, testable, and deployable systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that reduce incident impact and accelerate feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hong Kong International SchoolBachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Brigham Young University
Chinese
Github Skills (5)
media-library10
music10
python10
cli8
documentation7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the `gmusic` plugin, which integrates with Google Play Music. Their work included adding an "auto upload" feature, updating documentation for the plugin, and fixing user messages. The user also addressed code style issues identified by Flake8 and incorporated review feedback. These changes involved modifying Python code within the `beetsplug/gmusic.py` file.
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shuaiscott/tapdeets
Dec 2020 - Jul 2024
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Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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