Scott Stirling
Executive Programmer, UI Designer And Chief DevOps Engineer at Stirling South
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolScott Stirling is an experienced DevOps and application architect with 21 years of delivering high-traffic e-commerce and enterprise lift-and-shift migrations across public, private and hybrid clouds. He blends hands-on Linux and Java/JEE expertise—ATG/Oracle Commerce, Weblogic, JBoss, Node.js—with infrastructure automation (Docker, Ansible, Puppet), CI/CD and performance engineering to keep multi-vendor, multi-timezone projects on track. Scott has led operations and platform work for major retail brands and high-revenue sites, productized secure hosted solutions using open source tooling, and mentored teams through mergers and scale-ups. He also contributes to notable open-source projects, helping improve the Groovy core by fixing subtle error-handling and XML escaping bugs. Based in North Carolina, he pairs classical liberal-arts training with deep technical chops, often surfacing pragmatic, QA-driven fixes that few architects spot until production breaks.
21 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate course work UNIX and Java, Post-graduate course work UNIX and Java at Washtenaw Community CollegeBA Classics, BA Classics at Saint Anselm College
Greek, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
xml10
javas10
programming-language10
groovy10
java10
dynamic-typing9
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
jvm-languages9
metaprogramming8
unit-testing8
testing8
apache7
proxy6
regex6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
groovy/groovy-core
Jan 2005 - Feb 2005
former home of the groovy programming language, moved to https://github.com/apache/groovy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions focused on fixing bugs and improving the Groovy core library. They addressed a typo in the interactive shell output, corrected error handling, and removed unnecessary `IOExceptions` from the `GroovyClassLoader`. Furthermore, the user fixed an XMLBuilder issue related to character escaping, ensuring correct XML generation. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality, error handling, and XML processing within the Groovy language ecosystem.
groovyapachecompilerprogramming-languageinterpreter
scottstirling/bitcloutDAO
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Decentralized Social Network Money Frauds/Scams including BitClout, Twetch, Steemit, PeakD
Contributions:3 releases, 110 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
social-networkzcashsteemitblockchain-platformblockchain
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