Summary
Scott Mattan is a seasoned Software System Architect based in Yokohama with eight years focused on designing and operating cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes and OSS tooling. He has led backend chapters and mobility units, driving distributed tracing adoption, CI/CD reliability improvements (raising success rates from ~30–40% to 90–100%), and golang repo standards while mentoring engineers in system design. His hands-on background spans cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure, microservices in Go, Rust and Python, observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki), and service meshes like Istio, plus experience integrating reservation and streaming products. A former USAF network specialist, he combines rigorous operational discipline with modern SRE/architecture practices. Curious about Rust and WASM, he experiments with new stacks and routinely shares learnings through study groups and technical presentations, favoring Fedora and open-source workflows.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Dimploma, N/A, High School Dimploma, N/A at Geneseo High School
Associate of Applied Science, Electronic Systems Technology, Associate of Applied Science, Electronic Systems Technology at Community College of the Air Force
English, Japanese