Scott Lemmon
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Tech Lead at Aurora
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolScott Lemmon is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech lead based in Pittsburgh with 11 years of experience building scalable data and hardware-integrated systems for companies ranging from startups to Tesla and Aurora. He specializes in backend and infrastructure engineering—designing large-scale data pipelines, Kubernetes and Docker migrations, and hybrid cloud deployment and monitoring practices. His background in mechanical and hardware systems (including CMOS image sensors and production-line vision/assembly) gives him a practical edge when bridging firmware, edge compute, and cloud services. At Tesla he led fleet data infrastructure efforts and at Aurora he progressed from SRE to senior tech lead roles, evidencing both operational rigor and leadership growth. Comfortable working across cultures, he lived and worked in Japan, developing production systems and conducting NPI work in Japanese-language environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic systems design that balances automated testing, observability, and hardware-aware software constraints.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Japanese at Kansai College of Business and LanguagesBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (133)
container-management10
minecraft10
terraform10
gcp10
dns-record10
container10
octoprint10
docker10
docker-image10
ingress10
idp10
aws10
monitoring9
external-dns9
pipeline9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Lemmons/minecraft-spot
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
A terraform based, fully (mostly) hassle free, spot instance setup for Minecraft in aws.
Contributions:99 commits, 24 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 years 7 months
awsminecraftspotterraform
Authentise/OctoPrint-Authentise
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 16 PRs, 79 pushes in 7 months
octoprintplugin
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