Scott Szakonyi
Application Engineer
Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Szakonyi is an application engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing business-critical software, particularly in C#, SQL Server, and legacy-to-modern migrations. He excels at converting and refactoring legacy systems (VB6, SQR) into testable, dependency-injected C# code and has implemented robust integrations like OPC UA and MSMQ for manufacturing and production environments. Comfortable leading both solo and collaborative efforts, he emphasizes process, documentation, and reusable, performant code while bridging technical and non-technical audiences through strong communication skills. His background spans research-driven development (bioinformatics workflows, Galaxy) to enterprise banking and industrial automation, reflecting adaptability across domains and tech stacks. Now expanding from a long Microsoft-centric career into open source, he brings practical engineering rigor plus a communicator’s instinct for making complex systems understandable.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Journalism, Bachelor of Science - BS, Journalism at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (15)
bioinformatics10
genomics10
science10
sequencing10
pipeline10
python9
workflow-engine9
docker9
data-science8
galaxy4
ecosystem2
json-ld2
json2
kubernetes1
grafana1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sszakony/galaxy
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 months
intensivepythonsciencedata-science
sszakony/galaxytools
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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