Scott Walker
Senior Software Engineer at T. Rowe Price UK
Brentwood, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Walker is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years' experience designing and delivering resilient backend systems across finance, government and media sectors, now shaping platforms at T. Rowe Price UK. He excels in Python and Scala ecosystems—building data lake services, ETL pipelines and SDKs that stream large datasets to tools like Spark, Dask and Trino while enforcing compatibility through test automation and Nox. His background includes low-latency trading systems, cloud-native deployments on Kubernetes/GCS/AWS S3, and government-grade Scala microservices with strong TDD and performance testing discipline. Scott also contributes to Akka-related open-source code hygiene, showing an attention to maintainability and clean builds beyond feature work. Colleagues rely on him to translate product needs into architecture diagrams, technical plans and realistic estimates, balancing hands-on engineering with team enablement.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
2.1 BSc Computer Science, 2.1 BSc Computer Science at University of East Anglia
English
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Github Skills (9)
sbt10
akka10
scala10
build-automation9
software-design8
json6
playframework6
grpc6
protocol-buffers6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RayRoestenburg/akka-in-action
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Accompanying source code for akka in action
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on improving the code quality and build process of the Akka-based project. They updated project plugin dependencies, removed redundant code elements, and addressed compiler warnings by importing feature flags and adding necessary parentheses. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining code hygiene and ensuring a clean build, crucial for backend development in a Scala/Akka environment. Their work touches upon essential aspects of a well-maintained backend project.
scalaakkain-action
dvla/vehicles-presentation-common
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:1296 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
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