Scott Mccoy
Distinguished Software Engineer at Quantcast
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorScott Mccoy is a Distinguished Software Engineer with 15 years building high-throughput, cost-efficient distributed systems from Oakland, CA. He has led platform engineering and R&D at Quantcast, architecting a custom information retrieval system (Kamke) and redesigning RTB stacks to cut costs by over 50% while improving latency and operational visibility. His work spans low-latency UDP protocols, domain-specific query languages, NVMe-optimized indexes and production autoscaling, delivering multi-million dollar savings and measurable product impact. Prior roles at Say Media and LeapFrog show deep expertise in ad delivery, event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing, with a track record of turning prototypes into core product platforms. He combines hands-on coding with setting engineering standards, hiring and cross-site enablement, and often focuses on observability and statistical metrics to make performance bottlenecks obvious. A pragmatic systems thinker, he routinely finds high-leverage optimizations that reduce costs and simplify operations while preserving feature velocity.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
spotify-api7
discord-bot7
discord-py7
spotify6
discord6
golang5
psgi4
blackboard4
python4
gearman4
gnu4
go3
cpp3
awk3
nextcord3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ssmccoy/awkbot
May 2011 - May 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 1 month
ssmccoy/blackboardjs
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 months
thenableblackboardcontrollerjavascriptjavascript-applications
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