Scott Coates
Technical Lead at Wild Ink Marketing
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Coates is a technical lead and growth-focused engineer with 14 years of experience blending hands-on software development (JS, Python, .NET) and data-driven marketing to drive customer acquisition, retention, and revenue growth. He’s led engineering and product efforts at startups and Fortune 500s—shipping analytics pipelines, localization, and authentication platforms—while co-founding a fast-growing rental marketplace and improving conversion rates through rigorous A/B testing. As Head of Marketing at Upright Growth he fused analytics, SQL, and marketing automation to help small businesses reach the right audiences, and he continues that mission at Wild Ink where he also mentors junior React developers. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced Neo4j .NET client Gremlin support and added authentication improvements, demonstrating a knack for bridging backend systems and product needs. Based in Oakland, Scott pairs quantitative rigor with creative marketing instincts—and is known for being unusually friendly to animals.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer/Analyst, CS, 3.5, Computer Programmer/Analyst, CS, 3.5 at Fox Valley Technical College
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Github Skills (18)
gremlin10
net10
dotnet10
neo4j10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
apidoc9
api9
authentication8
user-authentication8
testing7
iis-express6
custom-error6
asp-net-mvc6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DotNet4Neo4j/Neo4jClient
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
.NET client binding for Neo4j
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the `.NET client binding for Neo4j`, specifically focusing on Gremlin query functionality. They added new methods and overloaded existing ones in `BasicSteps.cs` to support new Gremlin steps like `BothV`, `BothE`, and `Both`. Additionally, the user added authentication support for the graph client and updated the connection methods. These changes enhance the client's capabilities for interacting with the Neo4j graph database using the Gremlin query language.
dotnetcsharpneo4jbinding
willow/scone-api
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:77 commits in 6 months
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