Scott Schurr
Retired Grandfather, Singer, And Chapman Stick Player
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Schurr is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of recent industry experience and a multi-decade career building high-performance, hardware-integrated systems in C++, C, and assembly. He has driven hard real-time embedded motion control improvements (50x timing resolution gains) and contributed to the widely used rippled XRP Ledger daemon, refactoring critical SHAMap components. Comfortable across OSs and languages (Perl, Python, C#) and experienced in multiprocessing/threading, he excels at small, multidisciplinary teams that deliver precise, customer-focused solutions. Now retired and based in Portland, he combines deep low-level systems expertise with a creative side as a singer and Chapman Stick player, and remains eager to learn new technologies when projects pique his interest.
11 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Reed College
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
cryptography9
data-structures8
data-structure8
architectures7
architecture7
performance-optimization6
test-automation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/rippled
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
Decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain daemon implementing the XRP Ledger protocol in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:679 reviews, 200 commits, 228 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily worked on refactoring and improving the codebase related to the XRP Ledger protocol. They focused on the `SHAMap` component, moving a `treeNodeCache` and modifying constructors to address object-related issues. Additionally, the user documented the `SHAMap` and made minor improvements to the code for the `Resource` component and other areas of the codebase by making various bug fixes.
cryptographycppxrpldaemonblockchain
scottschurr/ripple-offline-tool
Jan 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
signingserializationrclstandalone
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