Scott Hardy
Software Engineer at Crux
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Hardy is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling product-focused systems, most recently at Crux after a long tenure as Principal Software Engineer at brightwheel. At brightwheel he joined as the second backend engineer, led major application and billing rewrites that supported rapid revenue growth, and improved Postgres performance by roughly 50% during a high-growth cycle. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes and AWS with a knack for developer productivity—introducing feature flags, CI improvements, and fairer interviewing practices. Scott has experience bridging product and technical planning for ambiguous initiatives, enabling teams to deliver new business lines securely and efficiently. His early career at eBay and startups sharpened his full-stack instincts and deployment tooling chops, while entrepreneurial projects taught him to prioritize measurable business impact. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he brings a balance of technical depth and practical process improvements that help fast-growing teams scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Santa Clara University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (149)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scott113341/powderkegbrewingcompany
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 17 tags in 2 years 1 month
brewingjekyllkegpowder
soundcasts/soundcasts-web
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:67 commits, 28 PRs, 77 pushes in 5 months
podcastssoundcloudpodcast
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