Summary
Scott Macmillan is a software infrastructure engineer with a decade of experience building and operating tooling for large-scale research compute environments, currently supporting a ~2,000-node cluster for Harvard FAS Research Computing. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code and observability, working daily with Terraform, AWS, Grafana, Puppet, and Choria to keep high-performance scientific workflows reliable and auditable. Prior roles span product and engineering positions at startups and game companies, reflecting strong operational instincts and a founder’s mindset from running his own companies. Based in Massachusetts, he pairs hands-on automation skills with a practical appreciation for researcher workflows, often focusing on internal developer tools that make large clusters manageable behind the scenes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English