Scott Near
Software Engineer at Amazon
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Near is a versatile full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience building performant, accessible web applications and cloud-native interfaces. Currently at Amazon, he combines frontend expertise in Angular/TypeScript with backend work in Go Lambdas and infrastructure-as-code (CDK/CloudFormation) to ship fast, reliable user experiences. He has a strong track record modernizing large enterprise platforms (Bank of America) and delivering finance and property-management products at smaller teams, often owning accessibility, CI/CD, and deployment automation. Known for clear technical communication and mentoring junior engineers, he brings customer-service roots and cross-disciplinary problem-solving from a background that spans pharmacy, chemistry, and pharmaceutical engineering. Pragmatic and resourceful, Scott often bridges design-to-deployment gaps—turning practical needs into maintainable software at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Pharmaceutical Engineering at Jerusalem College of EngineeringPharmacy, Pharmacy at The Hebrew University of JerusalemChemistry, Chemistry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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320reached
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Github Skills (14)
apply6
shrine6
html6
sketch-app6
frontend6
user-interface6
file-upload6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
google-drive-api6
web-application4
react3
storage1
google1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
verynear/shrine-google_drive_storage
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 11 tags in 3 days
googleshrinegoogle-drivestorage
verynear/mini-capstone
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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