Scott Frederick
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at HeroDevs
Highfill, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolScott Frederick is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver cloud-native Java and Spring platforms. He’s a longtime Spring and Cloud contributor and Spring Boot committer who has improved HTTPS/SSL support and SNI across embedded servers, and has driven configuration and Vault integrations across Spring Cloud and Spinnaker projects. Scott has moved between product and platform roles—shaping Spring Cloud Services at Pivotal, contributing to Cloud Foundry tooling, and optimizing Tanzu and Paketo experiences at VMware/Broadcom—while also cultivating open-source ecosystems. Based in Highfill, Arkansas, he combines deep systems architecture experience from enterprise-scale travel systems with hands-on backend engineering and developer experience work. Notably, he has a track record of turning complex platform integration challenges (SSL, config, Vault, cloud provider support) into reusable open-source solutions that benefit large developer communities.
16 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics, Electronics at Casper College
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Github Skills (54)
git10
api-rest10
ssl10
cloud-foundry10
tls1210
oracles10
postgresql10
github10
back-end-development10
api-design10
mysql10
restful-api10
configuration-management10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scottfrederick/spring-music
May 2013 - May 2022
A sample application for using database services on Cloud Foundry with Spring Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 commits, 7 PRs, 28 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott refactored the repository's configuration, modifying data source configurations to support multiple database services, including MySQL and MongoDB. They added support for cloud and local configurations using Spring profiles and refactored the access to cloud environment information. The user also made changes to support cloud config for MongoDB and added Postgres support. They fixed generation of string IDs for MySQL.
spring-bootfoundryspring-frameworkspring-datacloud-foundry
spring-cloud/spring-cloud-connectors
Sep 2013 - Dec 2021
Library to let cloud applications connect to services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 199 commits, 86 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `spring-cloud-connectors` library. Their work focused on enhancing database connectivity, specifically adding support for Oracle by adding a ServiceInfo and DataSourceCreator. They also added service connectors for Cloud Foundry user-provided services, including Oracle, Postgresql and Mysql. Furthermore, the user modified the database url building.
connectorcloudspringletazure
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