Scott Mccreary
Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
United States
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Top SchoolScott Mccreary is a Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager who builds AI-first defense products from seed stage through rapid scale, currently shaping flagship search, RAG pipelines, BI, and agentic deployments at Vannevar. With eight years of engineering experience and a background that spans product and platform leadership, he blends hands-on system design with people management to deliver secure, high-impact intelligence services. He previously fought fraud and optimized performance at Grailed—adding Sorbet to Rails and tuning infrastructure for high-profile drops—and brings practical experience in trust, moderation, and risk systems. A Yale BA in Psychology, he pairs human-centered thinking with technical rigor to craft usable ML-powered features. Before tech he toured as a working actor, a background that contributes unconventional communication and resilience skills to high-pressure engineering environments. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous requirements into auditable, production-grade systems that serve mission-critical customers.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorMaster of Music, Cello Performance, Master of Music, Cello Performance at Rice UniversityBA, Psychology, With Distinction, BA, Psychology, With Distinction at Yale University
Github Skills (9)
react9
javascript9
frontend9
user-interface8
friend8
declarative8
typescript7
diet4
flutter2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TeamGroot/Save-Gudetama
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Welcome to the Save Gudetama typing game! Keep typing as fast as you can to prevent Gudetama from getting squashed by the wall of bricks! Play alone or with a friend.
Contributions:74 commits in 13 days
brickswallgamekeeptyping-game
read-your-veggies/read-your-veggies-web-app
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
A news app for a balanced media diet.
Contributions:83 PRs, 76 pushes, 18 branches in 24 days
reactnews-appbalancedflutternews
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