Scott Schneider
Senior Security Software Engineer at Splunk
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarScott Schneider is a Senior Security Software Engineer in Portland with 17 years building resilient infrastructure, security tooling, and automation across startups and large-scale platforms. He combines deep DevOps and backend testing experience—from Puppet and Mesosphere integration work to shipping infrastructure at CircleCI—with a current focus on security at Splunk. Scott is a pragmatic contributor to open-source projects like beaker and DC/OS, where he improved VM provisioning, cross-hypervisor support, performance telemetry, and VIP networking in integration tests. His background spans hands-on systems administration to staff-level infrastructure engineering, giving him fluency across CI/CD, systemd/docker orchestration, and test-driven deployment pipelines. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational requirements into auditable, production-ready automation and security controls.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (19)
docker10
pytest10
python10
testing10
dcos10
dockers10
devops10
marathon9
networking9
bash9
clustering8
solaris8
graphite8
cluster-computing8
cicd8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/beaker
Nov 2012 - Sep 2015
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:67 commits, 15 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the project's testing and deployment infrastructure. Their contributions include adding support for Solaris hypervisor environments with specific vmrun commands, implementing VM provisioning and cleanup routines with vCloud, and enabling performance data collection, particularly with Graphite integration. The user also made several improvements to the test configuration, and introduced features like API token authentication for VM management.
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dcos/dcos
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
DC/OS - The Datacenter Operating System
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:38 commits, 50 PRs, 110 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the integration and testing aspects of the DC/OS project, with a focus on networking. The user implemented and tested VIP functionality within the integration test suite. Additionally, the user updated Docker package dependencies and configured systemd services, indicating involvement in DevOps-related tasks. These changes suggest a strong understanding of both backend testing and deployment infrastructure.
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