Scott Duane
Owner Operator
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Duane is a pragmatic software engineer and owner-operator with over a decade of experience building full-stack systems, specializing in payments and billing platforms. Trained as a pure mathematician (PhD, UC San Diego), he combines deep analytical rigor with practical trade-offs to deliver fault-tolerant, production-ready solutions under real-world constraints. He has led payments engineering at health-tech and SaaS companies—designing end-to-end billing, Stripe integrations, invoicing, and resiliency features—and has a track record of shipping dependable systems at Patreon, Checkr, and Osmind. Scott also coaches and mentors engineers and bootcamp grads, translating complex technical concepts into teachable practices. Based in Oakland, he runs Underdog Software while holding a lead engineering role at UCSF, blending freelance entrepreneurship with institutional impact. Colleagues know him for pairing mathematical depth with an engineer’s sense of pragmatism—diving deep when needed but always mindful of timelines and resources.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at Carleton College
Github Skills (2)
react3
javascript2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ScottDuane/EmpathyWall
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ScottDuane/RocketRide
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:69 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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