Scott Guymer
Principal Software Developer at Philips
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolScott Guymer is a Principal Software Developer with 13 years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering secure, production-grade systems across enterprises like Philips and Sky. He combines hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership, mentoring teams, and driving architecture decisions from legacy modernisation to cloud-native event publishing. A pragmatic problem-solver, he is skilled at turning complex business requirements into simple, elegant solutions and has led teams through high-pressure, fast-paced delivery cycles. Scott contributes to notable open-source work such as Backstage—adding flexible GitHub catalog transformers and plugin tests—demonstrating his commitment to developer experience and extensible tooling. Based in Eindhoven, he brings a background in computation from The University of Manchester and a track record of fostering learning cultures and modern engineering practices. An often-overlooked strength is his blend of deep technical craft with strong customer and stakeholder communication honed across consultancy and product roles.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Altrincham Grammar School for BoysBSc, Computation, BSc, Computation at The University of Manchester
English
Stackoverflow
1,905reputation
1.0mreached
18answers
7questions
angularjs
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Github Skills (19)
back-end-development10
backstage10
typescript9
typescript-types9
angularjs9
nodejs9
typescripts9
github-api8
testing8
aws7
full-text-search6
sql-server6
merge6
stunnel6
git-branch6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Backstage project by adding functionality to the catalog-backend-module-github and stack-overflow-backend plugins. Their work involved implementing custom transformers for GitHub users and teams, enabling more flexible entity generation within the Backstage framework. They also added tests for the stack-overflow-backend plugin and made configuration adjustments for AWS SQS event publishing.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
philips-labs/terraform-cloudfoundry-matomo
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Terraform module for deploying matomo to cloudfoundry
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 55 commits in 9 months
deployingmatomoterraform-modulescloudfoundryterraform
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