Scott Stern
Owner at Deer Valley Golf Course
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Stern is an engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of recent professional experience built on a multi-decade foundation in hardware, embedded software, and program management. He transitioned from long-tenured technical and program roles at companies like Compunetix and Tollgrade into entrepreneurial ownership and general management of Deer Valley Golf Course while continuing hands-on engineering practice. Scott brings deep electrical engineering training (Virginia Tech, Purdue) and a track record of shipping embedded systems and managing complex projects end-to-end. He also contributes to notable open-source tooling—fixing and improving ESLint rules and enhancing Elixir static analysis in Credo—showing fluency across front-end linting and backend code quality. Known for bridging rigorous technical detail with operational leadership, he combines system-level engineering instincts with practical business ownership. An unassuming collaborator, he often surfaces subtle bug fixes and test improvements that materially raise reliability across codebases.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering at Virginia TechM.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering, M.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (15)
linter10
unit-testing10
static-code-analysis10
javascript10
code-analysis10
static-analysis10
eslint10
test-unit10
elixir10
exunit10
ecmascript10
testing9
refactoring9
programming-language8
jsx8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eslint/eslint
Sep 2016 - Feb 2019
Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 119 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the ESLint library. Their work involved addressing issues in multiple rules, including `max-statements-per-line`, `indent`, `no-useless-escape`, `no-warning-comments`, and `prefer-const`. They also added support for new features, such as escape characters in JSX and multiline array statements, alongside removing incorrect tests.
linterfixeslintproblemsjavascript
rrrene/credo
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
A static code analysis tool for the Elixir language with a focus on code consistency and teaching.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 54 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `credo` static code analysis tool. They added functionality to existing checks, such as pipe chain start, and implemented a new check for pattern matching. Moreover, the user fixed bugs and wrote new tests for the code analysis rules, ensuring the tool's accuracy and robustness. They also updated error messages and refactored code to improve the tool's performance.
linterteachingelixirstatic-code-analysiselixir-language
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