Scott Wells
President Founder at Rose Silver Software LLC
Camas, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Wells is a seasoned software architect and founder with over two decades of experience building developer tools and enterprise systems, currently leading Rose Silver Software and shipping Illuminated Cloud for JetBrains IDEs. He combines hands-on engineering with product leadership—modernizing UI and data architectures, migrating complex applications to Salesforce-native SaaS models, and designing secure, scalable data processing on AWS. As CTO at Sirono he implemented HIPAA-conscious Salesforce solutions and an ephemeral Spark-based ingestion pipeline, and he has contributed to the widely used PMD static analysis project by enhancing Apex security and CRUD analysis. Comfortable working directly with customers and partners, he focuses on productivity-boosting tooling, refactoring for long-term maintainability, and pragmatic integrations between platform and cloud services. Based in Camas, WA, he holds a CS and Math degree from Rhodes College and frequently blends deep backend systems thinking with developer-centric UX improvements.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics at Rhodes College
Github Skills (8)
javas10
static-code-analysis10
code-analysis10
apex10
java10
security10
regular-expression9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pmd/pmd
Dec 2017 - Aug 2024
An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 24 comments, 9 issues in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed significantly to the PMD project by implementing new configuration properties and features for the Apex code analysis engine. They added properties to enhance the detection of test assertions, improve documentation practices, and refine the handling of empty virtual methods. Furthermore, the user implemented initial support for CRUD operations, including DML and SOQL statements, thereby enhancing security analysis capabilities. Additional work focused on refactoring the codebase to optimize the comment handling and caching.
lintercode-analyzercode-qualityresharperstatic-code-analyzer
SCWells72/pmd
Oct 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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