Scott Rager
Senior Software Engineer II at Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Rager is a Senior Software Engineer II with over a decade of experience building secure, high-performance distributed systems, currently shaping Akamai’s Kubernetes Product Platform and previously improving global load balancing and mission-critical networking at BBN. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and combines deep academic rigor in mathematics and data analysis with practical skills in cloud-native tooling (ArgoCD, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana) and Go-based APIs. Scott has led multi-million-dollar DARPA projects, mentored teams, served as scrum master and on-call incident lead, and consistently reduces operational costs and complexity—once cutting metric storage by 60% through observability redesign. Comfortable translating research into production, he excels at tightening security posture (OIDC/RBAC), automating git-ops workflows, and rapidly diagnosing complex system interactions. Based in Iowa City and only open to fully remote roles, he brings a rare blend of research leadership and hands-on platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State UniversityBA in Physics with Minor in Applied Mathematics, BA in Physics with Minor in Applied Mathematics at Slippery Rock University
Github Skills (1)
elastic2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
srager13/ns3_qoi_symptotics
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
srager13/gha-test
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Testing github actions
Contributions:37 PRs, 87 pushes, 36 branches in 7 months
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