Scott Patten
Software Engineer at FOSSA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Patten is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience who blends hands-on backend and DevOps work with a strong history of entrepreneurship. Based in Vancouver, he co-founded Leanpub and Ruboss, helping grow Leanpub into a profitable, author-friendly platform that has paid millions in royalties, and has a track record of building products end-to-end. At FOSSA he contributes to language-agnostic dependency and license scanning tooling, notably integrating VPS scan functionality into the widely used fossa-cli and resolving tricky API integration and content-type issues. His early career as a physicist and technical lead in imaging and printing imbued him with a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to systems design and automation. He also authors technical content and has practical experience shipping developer tools that bridge security, build systems, and large monolith analysis.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at The University of British ColumbiaBSc, BSc at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (9)
open-source10
scanner10
licensing10
go10
scanning10
cicd9
api9
apim9
python5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fossas/fossa-cli
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Fast, portable and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase. Supports license & vulnerability scanning for large monoliths. Language-agnostic; integrates with 20+ build systems.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:325 reviews, 113 commits, 202 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development of the `vpscli` tool, integrating VPS scan functionality. Their work involved creating and integrating the `vpscli` executable, which utilizes other tools like `sherlock` and `IPR` for license and fingerprint scanning. The user also addressed integration issues with the Scotland Yard and Sherlock APIs, refactoring code to incorporate new requirements and address content-type issues.
build-systemdependency-analysisvulnerabilityopen-source-licensingopen-source-vulnerabilities
spatten/slack-wifi-status
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
Set your slack status based on the SSID of your wifi
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
slackssidwifi
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