Scott H is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building privacy-first, customer-centric products and leading teams from prototype to scale. As Co-Founder of NorthStar Software and previously Jawger, he blends hands-on technical architecture with executive leadership to deliver decentralized, privacy-by-design social platforms and on-device encrypted apps. His enterprise background at Cisco, NetApp, and HP underpins strong system design, multi-tenant security, and content-publishing expertise that solved large-scale compliance and performance challenges. Scott pairs product intuition with grassroots organizing experience—having led successful citizen initiatives to protect natural parks—bringing uncommon community mobilization and user advocacy to product strategy. He is an accidental activist and local-first decentralized web advocate, currently focused on advancing digital self-determination through the fediverse and AT Protocol ecosystems. Based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, he combines startup grit with proven delivery across both consumer and enterprise domains.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business
BS, BS at Santa Clara University
Y-Combinator's Massively Open Online Course (MOOC)
Image Picker Controller for iOS written in Swift 4 & 5.
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