Scott Davidson
Staff Software Engineer at Self-employed
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Davidson is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Diego with a decade of experience building and maintaining full-stack systems across diverse languages and stacks. He has progressed from hands-on roles to technical leadership at Dragos while freelancing to deliver custom web and mobile solutions, demonstrating a pragmatic insistence on choosing the right tool for each problem. His background spans frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Ember), backend ecosystems (Elixir/Phoenix, Django, Rails), cloud and DevOps (AWS, Docker, ECS), and QA/automation practices, with a growing focus on security and blockchain (notably Algorand). Scott combines production-grade engineering with mentoring and curriculum experience from General Assembly, and brings an operator’s mindset from roles improving CI/CD and security posture. He’s as comfortable shipping APIs and payment integrations as he is experimenting with new tech stacks, making him a versatile engineer who prefers learning by doing.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General Assembly
English
Stackoverflow
1,045reputation
447kreached
3answers
7questions
Github Skills (43)
genstage9
elixir8
foreign-keys8
concurrent8
broadway8
realtime7
jekyll6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
api6
bearer-token6
heroku-review-app6
data-processing6
api-server6
phoenix-framework6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ga-wdi-boston/ruby-gem-study
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:16 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 6 months
ruby-gemsrailsfindingrubygems
scottyscripts/blog
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
My Blog
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
my-blogjekyll
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