Scott Maclellan
Senior Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Maclellan is a senior software developer with 16 years of experience building scalable, customer-focused products and engineering teams across startups and mature companies. He has repeatedly delivered high-impact changes—from architecting continuous delivery and zero-downtime deployments at D2L to founding early foundations and multi-team initiatives at Vidyard that enabled 10x–20x scale and boosted retention. At Boardera he helped a startup reach product-market fit by shipping iterative features, improving billing and account models, and raising developer practices like automated testing and faster feedback. Currently at Wealthsimple, he continues to blend hands-on backend work with leadership and process improvements. An active contributor to open-source testing infrastructure (notably enhancements to Machine.Specifications), Scott pairs a mechatronics engineering background with a pragmatic focus on reliability, developer experience, and measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Sciences Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Sciences Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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reflection
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optimization
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
net10
nunit10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
asp-net10
mspec10
reflection9
optimization9
operator6
wcf6
entity-framework6
operator-overloading6
validation6
math6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
machine/machine.specifications
Mar 2010 - Apr 2010
Machine.Specifications is a Context/Specification framework for .NET that removes language noise and simplifies tests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott updated the NUnit version, indicating a focus on the testing framework. This involved removing a dependency on `Machine.Testing` and incorporating relevant files directly into the project. The commit also includes the addition of a `TestsFor` class and an `AutoMocking` folder. This suggests a significant role in maintaining and improving the testing infrastructure for the project.
dotnetmspecunit-testing
smaclell/smaclell.github.io
Sep 2014 - Feb 2019
My personal blog for thoughts, stories and other other development fun about shipping software.
Contributions:690 commits, 5 PRs, 306 pushes in 4 years 5 months
thoughtsshipping-softwaremy-personal-blogshipping
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