Scott Collins
Senior Software Engineer at General Motors
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Collins is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance scientific and mission-critical systems, now applying that expertise at General Motors after a long tenure at NASA JPL. He specializes in Python, C/C++, and Java and designs cloud-native, distributed workflows on AWS—including auto-scaling EC2 clusters, container orchestration, and RESTful APIs for large-scale data ingest and archiving. Scott has repeatedly delivered production-ready data pipelines that have moved millions of scientific data granules to distributed archives, and he routinely leads small engineering teams through aggressive, overlapping release cycles. Comfortable across Linux, DevOps toolchains (Docker, Terraform, CI/CD), and embedded/real-time systems, he bridges low-level performance concerns with scalable cloud architectures. Based in Austin, TX, he combines rigorous algorithmic and memory-management skills with practical delivery—an engineer who can tune C++ on an RTOS one week and deploy containerized science workflows to AWS the next. His GitHub persona hints at a playful, warrior-like curiosity, reflecting a developer who values craftsmanship and unconventional thinking.
5 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Japanese
Github Skills (42)
insar10
forge10
opera9
water9
conda9
sar9
doi9
surface9
proteus9
leaf8
google-earth-engine8
terrain-generation8
landsat8
earth-observation8
threshold8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/opera-sds-pge
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA)
Contributions:50 releases, 305 reviews, 76 commits in 1 year 2 months
remote-sensingend-usersoperasensing
NASA-PDS/data-upload-manager
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Data Upload Manager (DUM) component for managing the interface for data uploads to the Planetary Data Cloud from Data Providers and PDS Nodes.
Contributions:31 reviews, 64 PRs, 157 pushes in 2 years
s3-storage
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