Scott Nixon
Senior Vice President at Self-employed
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolScott Nixon is a Senior Vice President and AI systems engineer with 15 years of experience designing cloud-native, secure automation at scale from startups to Fortune 500s. He currently leads development of an automated software security platform at Citi that auto-remediates and reports policy violations across hundreds of AWS accounts, combining infrastructure-as-code, event-driven automation, and security policy engineering. A co-founder of the health brand Happy Herbivore, he brings product and growth-stage experience—directing engineering, mobile and web development, and marketing efforts that drove repeated six-figure monthly sales. His background spans DevOps, CDK/IaC, serverless, and CI/CD tooling, and he teaches practical cloud engineering through a popular AWS CDK course. An active angel investor and advisor in crypto and early-stage startups, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with deep hands-on technical execution. Based in Oregon, he blends systems-level architecture with product intuition and a track record of turning operational complexity into reliable, auditable automation.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business, BS Business at The CitadelMaster of Science - MS Computer and Information Sciences, Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Sciences at University of South Carolina
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Github Skills (38)
discourse9
api8
api-client8
integrate7
html6
django-storages6
django-forms6
firewall6
gdata6
jquery6
python6
django-project6
django6
javascript6
graphene5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
citadelgrad/crypto-commando
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
CLI tool that makes it easy to automate farming, swapping, and staking of DeFi assets. Self Custodial.
Contributions:26 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
stakingswappingethereumblockchaincli-tool
citadelgrad/macbook-config
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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