Scott Chow
Staff Software Engineer at AppFolio
Goleta, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Chow is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems, currently advancing platform capabilities at AppFolio while completing a Master's in Computer Science (Systems) at UC Santa Barbara. He blends hands-on feature development—React, Rails-alternative Praxis, AWS worker jobs—and payments and onboarding platforms with developer productivity work like code-generation systems and custom attribute engines. Scott has practical experience integrating LLMs to automate document-driven onboarding and has a track record of shipping infrastructure improvements from Terraform-managed Lambdas to API versioning. A strong teacher and mentor, he’s led courses and peer-mentoring programs and enjoys translating complex systems into digestible learning artifacts. Outside work he’s a dedicated runner, comfortable tackling challenges from quick miles to full marathons, a discipline that mirrors his approach to engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (91)
jquery9
input-field8
representations8
react8
text-editor8
interface-builder7
select27
react-component7
science7
jstree7
scrolling7
searching7
node-app7
sparse7
maven6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ucsb-cs156-w21/demo-spring-react-todo-app
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:14 reviews, 30 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 month
ucsb-cs156-s21/proj-ucsb-courses-search
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:22 reviews, 171 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
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