Scott Labounty
Engineering Manager at Acorns
California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Labounty is an Engineering Manager in California with 15 years of hands-on software experience and a multi-decade engineering career that spans embedded systems, medical devices, trading systems, and modern web platforms. He blends deep Ruby on Rails and TDD/BDD expertise with pragmatic leadership—mentoring engineers and managers, instituting code review and testing practices, and translating product roadmaps into reliable delivery. At Acorns and prior companies he has led teams, built internal gems and APIs, and driven architecture for payments and lending products while championing automation and agile processes. Comfortable across low-level C/C++ and high-level web stacks, he uniquely pairs systems-level thinking from early work in real-time and simulation domains with modern cloud and API-driven development. Colleagues rely on him to raise team craft, streamline deployments, and foster a learning culture that consistently produces customer-focused, production-ready software.
15 years of coding experience
43 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (58)
perforce8
darcs7
dot7
bazaar7
rcs7
tfs7
accurev6
rake6
sketchup6
mercurial6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
has-many-through6
db-migrate6
rspec6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
slabounty/dotjanus
May 2013 - Oct 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years 6 months
slabounty/dot_grid
Dec 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:129 commits, 2 issues in 11 months
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