Scott Severtson
Solutions Architect at Spring Venture Group
Asheville, North Carolina, Other
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Severtson is a solutions architect and hands-on engineering leader with 13+ years of experience designing scalable systems and building high-performance teams for the education sector and beyond. He combines deep multi-language expertise (Java, Kotlin, C#, Elm, Ruby, Python, JavaScript) with mature DevOps and infrastructure skills—Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, AWS—and a proven track record of large-scale, multi-vendor platform deliveries. At Watermark he led a flexible data collection and reporting platform now used by the majority of the largest U.S. colleges, and he has contributed backend fixes and LDAP/TLS enhancements to the well-known Graylog open-source logging project. Comfortable moving between strategy and implementation, he excels at anticipating requirements months ahead, protecting teams from distractions, and automating repeatable deployment and recovery processes. Uncommon strengths include legal-document interpretation to uncover practical business advantages, plus hands-on skills from small-engine repair to home restoration, which underscore a pragmatic, problem-solving mindset. Based in Asheville, NC, he thrives on mentoring teams, streamlining operations, and delivering auditable, maintainable systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS (incomplete), Information Technology, BS (incomplete), Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (11)
javas10
configuration-management10
authentication10
logging10
ldap10
user-authentication10
java10
send-email9
security9
sendmail9
e-mail9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Graylog2/graylog2-server
Dec 2012 - Feb 2013
Free and open log management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott significantly contributed to the backend functionality of the Graylog2 server. They implemented enhancements for LDAP authentication, including support for non-Active Directory servers and TLS encryption. Furthermore, the user addressed configuration management by allowing externalization of configuration files. They also fixed a bug related to failed authentication and implemented email transport using direct javax.mail calls.
log-viewerloggingloggersecure-loggingsyslog
ssevertson/rabbitmq
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 9 months
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