Scott Russell
Senior Software Engineer at Okta
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Russell is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with seven years of experience specializing in identity and access management, currently advancing Okta’s Integration Network and entitlement governance with practical SCIM 2.0 enhancements. He combines hands-on engineering—API/SDK integrations, large-scale SAML and OIDC work, and platform-level entitlement processing—with customer-facing roles that shaped product decisions and scaling strategies. Prior roles span mission-critical support and developer advocacy, where he owned complex incidents for millions of users and maintained a perfect CSAT while translating customer pain points into engineering priorities. Scott’s background as an entrepreneur running an English school in Japan and his international travel reflect a knack for adapting to novel challenges and building cross-cultural relationships that inform his collaborative approach. He holds a computer science degree (3.91 GPA) and brings a pragmatic, customer-centered perspective to architecting secure, scalable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.91, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.91 at Regis UniversityBachelor's Degree, Anthropoloy, 3.5, Bachelor's Degree, Anthropoloy, 3.5 at State University of New York College at Geneseo
Japanese, English
Github Skills (4)
okta10
nodejs4
javascript3
access-token2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ScottRussell-okta/okta-developer-docs
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
okta-developer-docs
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
developer-oktaokta
okta/workflows-templates
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
workflows-templates
Contributions:1 review, 31 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
workflowsworkflow
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