Summary
Scott Jappinen is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14+ years building high-availability, distributed systems and data platforms for major media and finance organizations. He has led engineering efforts and R&D at ESPN across fantasy, personalization and community infrastructure, and later applied those skills to low-latency systems at Bridgewater Associates before co-founding Loom Labs. Known for deep expertise in architecture, algorithms, protocol design and information retrieval, he moves easily between production engineering and machine learning/optimization problems in any language. Based in Avon, CT, Scott combines product-focused pragmatism with research-driven thinking, often tackling thorny storage and data modeling challenges that sit between infrastructure and application. His background suggests an unusual comfort shipping both consumer-facing products at massive scale and tightly engineered backend systems for quantitative environments.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Montana State University Billings
B.S. Computer Science/Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science/Mathematics at University of Montana