Scott Fines
Chief Executive Officer Chief Technology Officer at Hyaline Industries
Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolScott Fines is a software engineer and engineering leader with 15 years building high-performance, distributed systems and databases for startups and hyperscale production environments. He has led teams that designed globally distributed databases and next-generation storage engines, notably contributing to Apple’s large-scale database efforts and to the open-source FoundationDB project—improving Java bindings, testing infrastructure, and performance instrumentation. His background spans core systems work (transactions, concurrency, query planning) to smart-grid and energy-sector data analytics as CEO/CTO of Hyaline Industries. Scott combines hands-on backend development with strong QA and test automation pedigree, often tackling subtle compatibility and instrumentation challenges in critical storage codepaths. He holds advanced training in applied mathematics and physics from the University of Missouri and is based in Columbia, Missouri.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
foundationdb10
testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
relational-databases10
multithreading9
cmake9
performance-monitoring9
distributed-database8
acid8
key-value-store8
transactional8
collections6
concurrency6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
A relational database with SQL support built on FoundationDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 16 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on upgrading the FoundationDB (FDB) version and addressing compatibility issues within the fdb-record-layer. This involved modifying test code, specifically the BunchedMapScanTest, to align with changes in FDB's compareTo() implementation. Additionally, the user added instrumentation for FDB metrics to the store timer, enhancing monitoring capabilities and improving code structure through minor cleanups. The commits also included the addition of settings related to enabling the multi-threaded FDB client.
foundationdbrelational-databasessqlrelational-database
apple/foundationdb
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:68 reviews, 26 commits, 17 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott contributed significantly to the Java bindings of the FoundationDB project, focusing on JUnit testing and the associated infrastructure. Their work involved converting the java unit testing framework to JUnit 5 and adding new cmake configurations for running JUnit and integration tests through ctest. Furthermore, the user refactored existing tuple tests and created new ones, which involved modifications to test classes and testing logic within the project. Their contributions also included basic instrumentation of Java bindings, demonstrating a focus on test-driven development and quality assurance.
foundationdbkey-value-storetransactionaldistributed-database
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