Scott Mansfield
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Mansfield is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 14 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and developer-facing infrastructure across Netflix, Meta, Google, and AWS. He leads Apigee API Security at Google as a tech lead for a ~20-person cross-product team, shaping roadmap, mentoring engineers, and translating customer needs into secure product features. His background includes creating Rend, a notable open-source memcached proxy at Netflix, and designing distributed caches and document stores that power large-scale services. Scott combines systems-level C++/Go expertise with pragmatic product instincts—evident in shipping hardware emulation and data-collection tooling at Meta to accelerate algorithm development. He is adept at modernizing legacy stacks, building observability and testing tooling, and influencing technical direction across large organizations.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
English
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Github Skills (17)
caching10
go10
memcached10
xaml9
back-end-development9
styles9
parsing9
parse9
php9
packet-parsing9
vbscript9
wpf9
namespaces6
sql6
jquery6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/rend
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
A memcached proxy that manages data chunking and L1 / L2 caches
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:545 commits, 107 PRs, 374 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the memcached proxy by implementing functionality for handling and processing set, get, delete, and touch commands. This work included developing the infrastructure for chunked data storage and retrieval, using the correct protocol implementation, as well as working on the metrics for these operations. This work was implemented using Go.
chunkingmemcacheproxycachecaches
ScottMansfield/exo
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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