Scott Gress
Software Engineer at Fleet Device Management
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolScott Gress is a seasoned software engineer with more than three decades in web development and 13 years of professional experience delivering full‑stack web and mobile applications. As a core maintainer of Sails.js and co-founder of The Sails Company, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with deep open‑source contributions to critical Node.js tooling (notably fixes across Waterline and multiple Sails adapters for MySQL, MongoDB and Postgres). He’s comfortable from low‑level database and adapter internals to front‑end frameworks (React/Angular/Vue) and cloud-native tooling like Docker and AWS, and has spoken at conferences including DockerCon. Scott pairs technical depth with design and creative skills—Adobe Suite, video/audio editing and copywriting—making him effective in client‑facing and product roles. His background includes founding startups, guiding architecture at scale, and hands‑on work across Python, PHP and Linux stacks. Based in Austin, he brings a practical, multidisciplinary approach focused on reliability, developer productivity, and real‑world data correctness.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science Cognitive Science, BA Computer Science Cognitive Science at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
mysql10
data-modeling10
mongodb-database10
orm10
sailsjs10
sql10
database-design10
nodejs10
mongodb10
debug9
debugging9
serialization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
balderdashy/sails-mongo
Jul 2013 - Oct 2017
MongoDB adapter for Sails.js / Waterline ORM.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:38 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `sails-mongo` adapter. Their work focused on refining how the adapter interacts with MongoDB, particularly addressing issues with data type conversions, including the handling of ObjectIDs, foreign keys, and array attributes. The user also fixed bugs related to data serialization, query parsing, and aggregation functions to improve the overall reliability and functionality of the adapter. Additionally, they updated the codebase to work with a range of configurations, including complex MongoDB URLs.
sails-jsadapterwaterlinewaterline-ormsails
balderdashy/sails-postgresql
Oct 2013 - Mar 2018
PostgreSQL adapter for Sails.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:55 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the PostgreSQL adapter for Sails.js. Their work included implementing new functionality like "NOT IN" clauses, fixing bugs related to query generation and schema handling, and adding support for PostgreSQL schemas. Additionally, they addressed issues with sequences and custom table/column names, enhancing the adapter's compatibility and robustness. They also refactored the adapter to use newer machine runner helpers.
sails-jsadapterpostgrespostgresqlsails
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