Scott Hutton
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarScott Hutton is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mountain View with seven years building reliable, high-performance systems from embedded devices to cloud-native data planes. Now focused on Rust at Cisco Meraki’s Cloud Native Head-End team, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset informed by deep C and Perl roots. He prioritizes performance, safety, and maintainability, and has applied those principles to notable open-source work—contributing Rust integrations, tests, and performance/safety improvements to the widely used ClamAV project. A mentor and architect as well as a hands-on coder, he’s comfortable navigating both low-level concurrency issues and large-scale cloud deployments.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
rust10
cmake10
build-automation9
c119
c179
antivirus8
open-source7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Cisco-Talos/clamav
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
ClamAV - Documentation is here: https://docs.clamav.net
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 reviews, 9 commits, 14 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributes to the ClamAV project by implementing and integrating Rust code, focusing on the `libclamav_rust` module. Their work includes adding unit tests for the logging module, integrating Rust tests with CMake and CTest, and improving the performance and safety of the cdiff operations. The user also refactored and cleaned up error handling and improved the use of Mutexes. Additionally, they addressed code style violations and integrated `cbindgen` via build.rs.
antivirusgplv2clamav
shutton/clamav
Nov 2021 - Jan 2024
ClamAV - Documentation is here: https://docs.clamav.net
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 2 months
clamav
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