Scott Newcomer
Staff Software Engineer at Workiva
Wausau, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolScott Newcomer is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and machine learning-enabled features, currently driving engineering at Workiva after founding an AI-focused startup. He has deep expertise in frontend frameworks (notably Ember and Phoenix LiveView) and a strong track record improving test infrastructure, performance, and release processes across widely used open-source projects like ember.js and phoenix. At AuditBoard he founded and led the AI team that brought audit-focused AI products to market and tackled performance bottlenecks that improved system responsiveness. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, he has contributed meaningful fixes and tooling—ranging from DOM diffing improvements to Elixir Stripe integrations—that reveal a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary engineering style. Based in Wausau, WI, Scott pairs product-minded leadership with hands-on coding and a history of moving greenfield ideas into production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance Investment and Banking, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance Investment and Banking at Wisconsin School of BusinessFinance, and Business Administration, Finance, and Business Administration at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (52)
unit-testing10
javascript10
react-components10
ember-data10
stripe10
elixir10
testing10
test-framework10
typescript10
user-interface10
websocket10
react-component10
jscript10
javascript-framework10
dom-manipulation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
beam-community/stripity-stripe
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
An Elixir Library for Stripe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 82 reviews, 126 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the Elixir-based Stripe library, stripity-stripe. Their contributions involved implementing file upload functionalities, including creating and retrieving files. They introduced multipart upload capabilities and modified existing code within the `lib/stripe.ex`, `lib/stripe/file_upload.ex` and `lib/stripe/request.ex` files to support the new file upload features. Additionally, the user updated existing tests for features such as subscriptions and plans.
elixirstripestripe-apihexhex-package
adopted-ember-addons/ember-changeset
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Ember.js flavored changesets, inspired by Ecto
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 22 reviews, 298 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on bug fixes related to the Ember.js flavored changesets, specifically addressing issues in the belongsTo and hasMany relationship setter and getter functions. The user's contributions included fixing nested relationships, ensuring proper cache updates, and resolving flow issues to improve the functionality of the Ember.js-based library. Additionally, the user upgraded the code and libraries to a newer version. These changes enhanced the library's robustness and compatibility.
emberjs
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