Scott Phillips
Vice Nerd at Nexigen
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Phillips is a mechanical engineer turned software leader with 10 years of experience building backend cloud infrastructure, automation tooling, and developer-friendly IaC to accelerate product delivery. As Nexigen’s "Vice Nerd" he pairs genAI and bespoke integrations with forensic data analysis and university research partnerships to multiply team impact and mentor junior engineers. His background spans robotics, embedded systems, signal processing, mathematical optimization and GIS—skills he has applied to automate complex engineer-to-order workflows and migrate legacy systems into secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines. He is comfortable across the full stack of infrastructure and developer experience, having authored automated SDK wrappers and contributed to upstream open-source libraries. A certified teacher at heart, he excels at breaking down complex systems so teams move faster, and off the clock he’s a recognizable endurance athlete and cycling advocate in the OH/KY/IN racing scene.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.97/4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.97/4.00 at University of Cincinnati - College of Engineering and Applied Science
English
Github Skills (142)
python10
kubernetes-namespace10
windows10
proxy10
chat10
port-forwarding10
verifiable-credentials10
k8s10
forwarding10
matrix10
linux10
devtools10
sdk10
winget10
powershell10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fundthmcalculus/python-fitparse
Jul 2019 - Jun 2024
Python library to parse ANT/Garmin .FIT files
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
python-librarypythongarminfitant
trinsic-id/mewmba
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
The roomba kitty for gather
Contributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 46 PRs in 8 months
kittyminecraftroombagather
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