Scott Kovatch
Senior Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Kovatch is a senior software engineer with three decades of commercial experience focused on macOS and iOS system-level development, and a proven track record shipping platform software at companies from Apple and Oracle to Workday and Mercedes‑Benz R&D. He combines deep Cocoa and lower-level Mac process management expertise with recent Qt/QML and embedded C++ experience, having helped deliver MBUX UI tooling that shipped in high-end vehicles. Comfortable as a long-time individual contributor, he has led technical efforts such as porting Java Web Start and Plugin to OS X and improving native UI integration for Eclipse SWT. Scott maintains an open-source macOS project with a small but devoted user base, reflecting a commitment to quality tooling outside of work. Based in San Jose, he prefers hands-on engineering over management and selectively uses Java while embracing cross-platform UI challenges.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityEuclid High School
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Github Skills (40)
itunes10
apple-tv10
ipod10
television10
iphone10
automator10
macos9
swt9
cli8
ffmpeg8
youtube8
youtube-dl7
uicollectionview-cell6
eclipse-rcp6
response-time6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Ascoware/get-iplayer-automator
May 2017 - Jan 2023
The goal of Get iPlayer Automator is to allow iTunes and your Mac to become the hub for your British Television experience regardless of where in the world you are. Currently, Get iPlayer Automator allows you to download and watch BBC and ITV shows on your Mac. Series-Link/PVR functionality ensures you will never miss your favourite shows. Programmes are fully tagged and added to iTunes automatically upon completion. It is simple and easy to use, and runs on any machine running Mac OS X 10.7 or later. And since the shows are in iTunes, it is extremely easy to transfer them to your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV allowing you to enjoy your shows on the go or on your television.
Contributions:105 releases, 2 reviews, 470 commits in 5 years 9 months
pvrgoalon-the-gobbctelevision
skovatch/ScriptWorker
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 4 pushes, 5 tags in 4 months
scriptingswift-libraryswiftiosmacos
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