Scott Corgan
Software Engineer at Tamarack
Shelbyville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolScott Corgan is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building performant, user-focused front ends and scalable static-file servers. Currently at Tamarack, he brings deep expertise in design systems, real-time collaboration UIs, and custom rendering (including WebGL and DOM renderers) honed at companies like InVision, Divshot (acquired by Google), and NoRedInk. An active open-source maintainer, he authored the tiny-emitter library and contributed important server and caching features to Firebase’s Superstatic, reflecting a knack for small, battle-tested tooling as well as infrastructure. Based in Shelbyville, KY, Scott combines hands-on coding with mentorship and front-end devops practices to speed delivery and improve developer experience. Notably, his philosophy—“Frontend is the real end”—shows a long-running commitment to shipping delightful, high-performance interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
CIS, CIS at DeVry University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
connect10
url-routing10
javascript10
middleware10
nodejs10
hapi9
caching9
filesystem8
testing8
fileio8
file-operations8
front-end-development7
back-end-development7
build-automation7
automated-build7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/superstatic
Oct 2013 - Oct 2015
Superstatic: a static file server for fancy apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:278 commits, 10 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions primarily focused on setting up and configuring the Superstatic static file server. They implemented core features for server initialization, including options for port, host, and directory, as well as routing and middleware configuration. Furthermore, the user introduced the ability to serve the application from a specific environment by creating middleware and the use of caching which supports both file and s3 storage as well as the option to redirect urls to the app.
file-serverstatic-file-serverfancyserver
scottcorgan/tiny-emitter
Jan 2014 - Jul 2019
A tiny (less than 1k) event emitter library
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 13 PRs, 23 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott was the primary contributor to the `tiny-emitter` library, developing its core functionality. They started by implementing the initial event emitter logic and tests, then refactored the code for size optimization. The user added the `#once()` method and refined the codebase further, including handling edge cases such as unsubscribing within event callbacks and adding standalone versions.
event-emitterevent-listenertinyjavascriptemitter
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