Scott Kirvan
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Kirvan is a software development manager and architect based in Seattle with eight years of professional experience leading teams and shaping product roadmaps at AWS. He specializes in turning high-level requirements into clear APIs and specifications, and excels at project estimation, planning, and developer coaching. Scott combines hands-on backend engineering with test automation—contributing notable work to the DAOS storage stack including build verification tests, a daosctl tool, and CI-integrated test cases for Open MPI runtimes. He brings both strategic product thinking and practical implementation skill, ensuring features are spec'd, tested, and production-ready. A Columbia and Johns Hopkins alumnus, he pairs deep technical rigor with a pragmatic focus on team delivery and reliable systems. Colleagues describe him as a leader who blends architecture-level vision with the willingness to dig into code and tests when it matters.
8 years of coding experience
M.S., M.S. at Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of EngineeringB.S., B.S. at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (9)
data-storage10
mpi10
dao10
python10
test-automation10
object-store9
c119
c179
build-system8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
daos-stack/daos
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
DAOS Storage Stack (client libraries, storage engine, control plane)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 73 commits, 120 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the DAOS storage stack by introducing build verification test code. Their work focused on the Open MPI (orte) runtime environment, adding new test cases for DAOS pools and, more broadly, the development of utilities for test support like creating the `daosctl` tool, a test launcher script, and adding functionality to the python API. The user also made various changes to existing tests for functionality and to integrate with the CI/CD pipeline.
pmdkspdkhyperconvergeddaosdistributed-storage
skirvan44/daosprstatus
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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