Scott Ellis
Director Of Engineering - Platform Security
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Ellis is a seasoned platform security leader with over 25 years of software design and development experience and 16 years in senior engineering roles, currently directing Platform Security at Zuora from Melbourne. He combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, managing distributed teams to build authentication, authorization, API routing/versioning, and bulk data features across a microservice ecosystem. His background spans embedded real-time systems, mining automation, and high-scale backend services at companies like Caterpillar, Rio Tinto and Groupon, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems insight and cloud-native architecture experience. An active developer and maintainer of network- and memory-intensive desktop clients, he also made notable open-source contributions to the Litecoin Qt wallet—adding QR code support, backup dialogs, and signed-message verification. Scott is passionate about removing red tape to ship customer-focused, high-quality software and about coaching teams to operate at high velocity across cultures and time zones.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc. (cog sci), Computer science, Philosophy, Psychology, B. Sc. (cog sci), Computer science, Philosophy, Psychology at La Trobe University
Github Skills (24)
wallet10
c-language10
qt10
bitcoin10
user-interface10
bitcoins10
dog10
ui-design10
cryptocurrency10
uid10
front-end-development10
qt-framework10
cprogramming-language10
network-analysis9
codegen9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
litecoin-project/litecoin
Nov 2011 - Jul 2012
Litecoin source tree
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott significantly contributed to the Litecoin project by implementing and integrating new features within the Qt user interface, specifically adding QR code generation and a wallet backup option. They modified existing UI elements, added new dialogs, and integrated external libraries such as libqrencode. Furthermore, they introduced functionality to verify signed messages within the application, enhancing user interaction with the Litecoin network. These modifications spanned across multiple files, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the project's UI and wallet functionalities.
cryptocurrencylitecoinbitcoincrypto
sje397/Chess
Mar 2010 - Jun 2010
Contributions:31 commits in 3 months
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