Scott Pfister
Principal Engineer at 7Factor Software
Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolScott Pfister is a Principal Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, highly available distributed systems and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprises. He has repeatedly driven architectural improvements—from event messaging and JSON API standards to Dockerized development environments and automated AWS provisioning—while mentoring engineers locally and internationally. His background spans fintech, e-commerce, health tech, and high-risk retail lending, and he pairs hands-on implementation (Elixir, Ruby on Rails, Terraform/Ansible, RabbitMQ) with pragmatic decisions to reduce technical debt. Scott is known for challenging the status quo and creating developer-focused tooling and processes that accelerate delivery; an atypical strength is his track record of blending deep systems architecture with developer experience improvements. Based in Vernon Hills, IL, he draws on formal CS training and cross-cultural study in Japan to inform clear, collaborative leadership.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS / BA Computer Science Asian Studies, BS / BA Computer Science Asian Studies at Cornell UniversityJapanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Kanazawa UniversityHS Diploma, HS Diploma at Illinois Math and Science Academy
French, Japanese
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Github Skills (50)
docker-desktop9
test-coverage9
docker8
coverage8
golang8
compile7
cli7
code-coverage6
shell6
zsh6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby-application6
go6
container6
ecosystem6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
goneflyin/prelude
Jul 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
emacspreludeemacs-lispdistribution
goneflyin/euler-elixir
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
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