Scott Theisen
Forward Deployed Engineer at Optimizely
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Theisen is a forward-deployed engineer and experimentation specialist with 8 years of experience turning A/B tests into measurable revenue and lead-generation wins for enterprise brands. He blends a software developer’s toolkit (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, backend work) with deep CRO strategy, having driven program-level experimentation at Ford and built onboarding and training frameworks at Optimizely. As a founder of an experimentation SaaS, he has applied AI to automate test code generation and created repositories to accelerate test launch velocity. Scott’s open-source contributions include UX-focused backend fixes to the well-known MythTV project, underscoring his comfort moving between frontend experiments and low-level system improvements. Based in Ann Arbor, he’s known for creating repeatable processes and searchable experiment backlogs that scale testing across organizations.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (9)
tvm10
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
logging8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MythTV/mythtv
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
The official MythTV repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 425 commits, 153 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott made several commits that improved the logic for managing and recreating painters within the MythTV repository. Their work included enhancing the initialization process and adding logging to output warning messages related to painter creation. Furthermore, the user consolidated the ReinitDone function into the Init function, addressing a bug that was causing issues with the program's functionality. These changes involved modifications to the UI library, specifically the MythMainWindow class, and the programs that use this class, indicating a focus on improving the MythTV frontend.
mythtv
ulmus-scott/mythtv
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
The official MythTV repository
Contributions:412 pushes, 254 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 9 months
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