Scott Davis
Embedded Security Developer at Star Lab, a Wind River Company
Marriottsville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Davis is an embedded security developer with 12 years of experience designing and hardening low-level systems for both government and commercial customers. He has led and contributed to secure virtualization and hypervisor projects (including Crucible at Star Lab) and built cross-platform host sensors and networked agents for malware detection and remediation. Comfortable across PowerPC, ARM, Windows, Linux and macOS, he blends deep C/C++ systems expertise with practical product stewardship from architecture through delivery. An active systems-level contributor to the widely used POCO C++ Libraries, he has fixed subtle networking and Windows registry edge cases that improved cross-platform robustness. Based in Marriottsville, MD, he pairs formal training (MS CS, BS Computer Engineering) with hands-on security engineering in classified and commercial settings, often surfacing non-obvious platform quirks into reliable fixes.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of Maryland
Github Skills (9)
windows10
c-language10
cross-platform10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
file-handling9
configurations8
configuration-management8
configuration-file8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pocoproject/poco
May 2014 - Oct 2016
The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the POCO C++ Libraries, focusing on networking and system-level functionalities. Their commits involve bug fixes and improvements related to network interface handling on Windows platforms, specifically addressing issues with prefix lengths and broadcast addresses. They also made changes to the Windows registry interaction, and improved the file copy handling. The user demonstrates proficiency in C++ and system-level programming, particularly within the context of cross-platform network applications.
pocoobjectmapperc-plus-pluslogginghttp-server
cryptoknight/poco
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 9 months
cppcmakewindowspocolinux
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