Scott Rowe
Engineering Team Lead at Nasdaq
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Rowe is an Engineering Team Lead based in Toronto with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend systems. Currently leading engineering at Nasdaq after rising through software and QA roles at Quandl, he blends operational rigor with a developer’s attention to code quality. His open-source contributions to the widely used quandl-python library show a practical focus on API stability, dependency management, and clear error handling. Early work creating interactive K–10 learning materials reflects an aptitude for translating complex requirements into user-focused solutions. Known for steady maintenance and incremental improvements, he favors reliability and clear interfaces over flashy rewrites.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Western University
Github Skills (9)
apim10
api10
python10
api-design10
http-request10
datasets9
api-client9
data-retrieval9
version-control8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
quandl/quandl-python
Nov 2016 - Sep 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 7 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Quandl Python library by addressing code quality, bug fixes, and version updates. Their work included modifying the error messages, adjusting the API key handling, and updating dependencies like the requests library. Furthermore, the user bumped the library version in several commits, and removed references to `api_version` from the documentation, indicating they focused on stability and maintenance of the library. These changes reflect a focus on the library's API integration.
api-clientpythondatasetdata-framequandl
A-Scott-Rowe/bfg-test-clean
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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