Scott Carr
Software Technical Lead at Duo Security
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolScott Carr is a Software Technical Lead and security researcher with 14 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across cloud, embedded, and research environments. He leads backend platform engineering at Duo Security, shipping Python services, OpenAPI tooling, Kafka migrations, and AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure while also owning load-testing and security-sensitive features like bad-password detection. His background includes high-performance C/C++ image processing at Maxar, binary analysis for embedded systems at Northrop Grumman, and multiple research internships (including improving rustc MIR at Mozilla) rooted in a PhD with publications at top-tier security conferences. Scott blends academic rigor with hands-on operational ownership, often translating research prototypes into hardened, observable systems. Based in Detroit, he brings deep cross-disciplinary expertise from low-level debugging (IDA Pro, QEMU, GDB) to cloud-native delivery and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological UniversityDale Carnegie TrainingDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, GPA: 3.83/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, GPA: 3.83/4.0 at Purdue UniversityMasters of Science, Computer Engineering, Masters of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scottcarr/beagle
Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:106 commits in 6 months
scottcarr/ccbot
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:75 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
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