Scott Walters
Director Of Engineering at Motion
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolScott Walters is a pragmatic Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building web platforms, cross-platform desktop apps, and OS-level components. He excels at turning complex technical problems into understandable plans, organizing teams for asynchronous work, and driving delivery toward minimal shippable products that move the needle. Comfortable in TypeScript/React stacks and experienced with C++ on Win32/Chromium codepaths, he blends hands-on engineering with people-first leadership. At Motion he now runs engineering operations—resourcing, planning, and execution—to ensure predictable shipping cadence. Previously he bootstrapped Windows clients and product features at startups and shipped platform work at Microsoft, giving him both startup grit and enterprise engineering rigor. Outside engineering, his knack for reducing scope and creating order often reveals simpler solutions that others overlook.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Stackoverflow
411reputation
59kreached
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
svg10
livestreamer10
web-development10
web-platform10
safari10
browser10
vlc10
firefox10
html10
winget10
webbrowser10
dom10
video-player10
mdt10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
scowalt/cs411
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:83 commits in 2 months
scowalt/twitter-sentiment-js
Apr 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 9 months
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