Scott Walker
Principal Engineer at Lava.ai
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Walker is a Principal Engineer with over 11 years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in distributed systems from the University of St Andrews, now based in Belfast. He excels at simplifying complexity—often by identifying what not to build—to accelerate delivery and improve engineering feedback loops across cloud-native and infrastructure teams. His career includes senior technical leadership at Puppet and Harness and recent principal-level roles at Lava.ai, where he shapes architecture and developer productivity. Scott blends deep research-rooted understanding of distributed systems with hands-on execution in production environments, mentoring engineers and driving pragmatic trade-offs. Notably, his trajectory spans both academia and industry, giving him a rare perspective on turning formal distributed-systems insight into reliable, maintainable software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science (Distributed Systems), Ph.D. Computer Science (Distributed Systems) at University of St Andrews
Github Skills (107)
puppet10
provisioning10
wrapping9
classifier9
automation-framework9
aws9
bidi9
java9
querying9
client-library8
azure8
clojure8
lambda8
infrastructure8
gcp8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scottyw/grpc-example
May 2019 - Jan 2022
gRPC examples in Go
Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 8 months
golanggrpcgrpc-goprotobuf
scottyw/tetromino
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:207 commits, 236 pushes, 46 branches in 5 years 2 months
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