Scott Talbert
Software Engineer at Sapere Consulting
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Talbert is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of professional experience based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, combining long-term systems work at Lockheed Martin with current development at Sapere Consulting. He holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia and brings deep cross-platform and systems expertise, particularly in C++ and Python. An active open-source contributor, Scott has made substantive back-end and cross-platform GUI improvements to widely used projects such as wxWidgets/wxPython and PycURL, including SSL backend support, WebKit2GTK+ integration, and build/seek bug fixes that improve portability and stability. He excels at bridging low-level compatibility and build-system issues with higher-level application behavior, a skill reflected in contributions that often resolve subtle platform-specific bugs. Known for steady, practical engineering, he prefers solving thorny interoperability problems that quietly make software more reliable across diverse environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (26)
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c-language10
python10
libcurl10
tls1310
wxwidgets10
gtk10
wxpython10
windows-gui10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
c119
c179
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
wxWidgets/Phoenix
Feb 2016 - Dec 2022
wxPython's Project Phoenix. A new implementation of wxPython, better, stronger, faster than he was before.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 224 commits, 368 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the wxPython Project Phoenix, implementing features and addressing issues related to cross-platform GUI development. Their commits focused on enhancing the GTK3 port of wxPython, adding support for building with GTK3, and making adjustments to ensure compatibility across different operating systems and platforms. They also addressed a variety of bugs and made improvements across the demo applications and testing infrastructure.
wxwidgetspythonmacosxwindowslinux
pycurl/pycurl
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
PycURL - Python interface to libcurl
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 63 commits, 152 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the `pycurl` library's functionality and compatibility. Their contributions included implementing SSL backend detection using `curl-config`, increasing the minimum libcurl version to address bugs, and adding support for the SecureTransport SSL backend for macOS. Furthermore, the user fixed several bugs related to seek callbacks and build processes, ensuring the library's stability and correct behavior across different platforms and configurations.
libcurlpythonhttp-clientpython-interfacepycurl
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