Scott Rushforth
Chief Technology Officer at Pura
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorScott Rushforth is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 15+ years building high-availability internet platforms, hardware-software products, and large engineering organizations. He led vehicle engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and global operations at Bird—scaling teams to 600+ direct reports and helping grow the company to over 1,700 employees. Currently CTO at Pura and serving as a strategic advisor to Bird, he blends deep systems engineering expertise with pragmatic product and operational leadership across transportation and logistics. His background spans cloud-native web services, render farms, data centers, and end-to-end vehicle integration, giving him a rare full-stack view from silicon to fleet. Scott pairs that technical breadth with real-world manufacturing and vendor-management experience required to ship hardware at scale. Outside work he’s an ultramarathoner who competes in multiple 100-mile races annually, reflecting his endurance mindset in both engineering and leadership.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (79)
countdown10
morphing9
timer9
animate8
google-cloud-monitoring8
menu8
webcam7
spinner7
cloud-sql7
uilabel7
loader7
fog7
google-cloud-platform6
swift6
home-assistant6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
activityclub/pointspaced
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:45 commits in 1 year 3 months
cowboyrushforth/redigocluster
Dec 2013 - Nov 2014
a wrapper for redigo to take advantage of redis 3.x new clustering capabilities
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 10 months
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