Scott Rice
Staff Software Engineer at HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Rice is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building Scala-based web applications, libraries, and developer tools. He has progressed from hands-on full‑stack work to leading platform and library efforts—most notably authoring and maintaining lib-mongo used across dozens to hundreds of services and building internal CLI tools that surface repo and deployment metadata. At Hopper/HTS he helped design an NDC flights supply platform and implemented company-wide metrics and code-quality tooling, demonstrating a mix of product-minded backend engineering and platform-level impact. Known for pragmatic refactors (Cats, free monads, interpreter pattern) that reduce side effects and improve maintainability, he combines deep Scala expertise with a developer‑efficiency mindset. Trained at Hack Reactor and grounded in a philosophy BA, he brings both rigorous engineering practice and clear communication across teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (70)
maven10
sbt10
gitlab10
gradle10
rewrite10
azure-repos10
robot10
kotlin-coroutines9
test-coverage9
http-request9
database9
mill9
scala-steward9
scala-cli9
refactoring9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scottrice10/strangeLightning
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:135 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
scottrice10/javascript-interview-questions
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:68 commits, 60 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
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