Scott Macfarlane
Software Engineer at Gusto
Lakewood, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolScott Macfarlane is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in build systems, release engineering, and DevOps across cloud-native and packaging ecosystems. He has driven large-scale build and release efforts at HashiCorp and Chef, maintaining hundreds of packages and a SaaS that hosted over 100,000 artifacts while automating complex dependency graphs and build scheduling. Currently at Gusto, he combines backend engineering with deep release tooling expertise honed through substantial open-source contributions to Habitat, where he fixed build errors, refactored plans, and helped shape core package definitions. Comfortable across Linux and Windows targets, Scott pairs systems-level knowledge of compilers and libc implementations with hands-on CI/CD automation and origin validation work. His background in research programming and satellite data pipelines reveals an ability to translate domain-specific needs into reliable, production-grade automation. Based in Lakewood, WA, he brings both community mentorship experience and a knack for simplifying brittle build workflows into repeatable, maintainable processes.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Japanese, BS Computer Science Japanese at University of Alaska Fairbanks
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (21)
package-management10
scripting10
build-system10
cicd10
automation10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
automations10
package-manager10
rust10
shell10
gnu-make9
gcc9
makefile9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Dec 2016 - Nov 2020
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:763 commits, 752 PRs, 673 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to defining and maintaining core Habitat Plan definitions, focusing on package management and build processes. Their work involved creating plans for various tools and libraries, including QEMU, libcap-ng, and others, and fixing build errors and dependencies. They also automated the build process by modifying existing plans and refactoring the build steps to use pushd/popd and address CI/CD related issues.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
habitat-sh/habitat
Jul 2016 - Nov 2020
Modern applications with built-in automation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 9 reviews, 320 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the core functionality of the Habitat project. Their work involved implementing origin validation logic, refactoring code related to origin keys, and modifying the build process. They also worked on the build system, modifying shell scripts and shell-based plans. Furthermore, the user addressed code linting errors and performed refactoring.
containersrustconfiguration-managementpackage-managerautomation
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