Scott H
Software Engineer I at Canonical
Canada
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Top SchoolScott H is a C++-focused Software Engineer I based in Canada with six years of experience building system-level applications and cloud tooling, currently contributing to Canonical’s Multipass virtual machine orchestration. He has practical experience modernizing codebases (C++13 to C++17), improving Windows installer and security workflows (NSIS to WiX, secure password storage, SMB mount automation), and expanding VM functionality such as snapshots and richer CLI output formats. Comfortable across backend systems, testing, and documentation, he also mentors external contributors and evaluates candidates, reflecting strong collaboration and code-quality instincts. An avid mountaineer, he leverages the focus and resilience from climbing to tackle complex engineering problems and iterate on user-facing features.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Honours (Co-op), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Honours (Co-op), Computer Science at University of ManitobaK-STEP 2018, K-STEP 2018 at Kokugakuin University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
virtualization10
linux9
unit-testing9
bash8
yaml7
json7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/multipass
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:331 reviews, 102 commits, 141 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott made several changes to the `multipass` project, primarily focused on enhancing the information displayed by the `info` command. They added the display of CPU counts in various output formats (CSV, JSON, YAML, Table) and updated test cases accordingly. Furthermore, they modified the shell command used to retrieve the CPU count. They also modified the output format of several of the commands.
hyper-vorchestratesinstancesvdivirtual-machine
sharder996/multipass.run
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 8 months
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