Scott Cowan
Staff Software Engineer at Diligent
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolScott Cowan is a pragmatic Staff/Principal Software Engineer and Solutions Architect with 17+ years of experience building and modernising cloud-native platforms, specialising in AWS serverless, containers, and infrastructure-as-code. He has led large migrations and greenfield builds—from a cost-optimised top-level domain and hosting platform to an LLM-powered query service using Bedrock—delivering measurable performance and cost improvements. Comfortable switching between high-level architecture and hands-on implementation, he excels at translating business goals into secure, observable systems and mentoring teams on CI/CD and operational best practices. His background spans enterprise and public-sector programmes, multi-account AWS landing zones, and complex multi-jurisdictional projects, reflecting strong stakeholder facilitation skills. An engineer who routinely uncovers non-obvious efficiency gains, he has repeatedly cut operational costs (~60% in one programme) while preserving SLAs and reliability.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Electronics Technology and Telecommunications, Diploma, Electronics Technology and Telecommunications at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityBSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at Simon Fraser University
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twitter
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teamcity
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Github Skills (80)
automation-ui10
fluent-interface10
twitter9
simplify9
api9
fluent-api9
teamcity9
specflow9
portal9
django8
hubspot8
testing8
docker8
structurizr7
selenium7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
markus101/teamcity-twitter-notifier
Mar 2009 - May 2010
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 1 month
twitter-apinotifierteamcitytwitter
marketing-delivery/terraform-modules
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:124 pushes, 1 branch, 33 tags in 10 months
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