Scott Wild
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Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Wild is a seasoned engineering manager and coach based in Austin with 12 years of experience building and operating backend systems and orchestration tooling. He led engineering teams at fintech and health startups and previously contributed as a senior software engineer at Puppet, where he worked on Razor (bare-metal provisioning) and Bolt (remote orchestration)—notable open-source projects that power infrastructure automation. Comfortable moving between hands-on backend and DevOps work, he has delivered remote execution, file-management endpoints, policy and metadata management, and reliability-focused refactors. As a people-focused leader he now combines technical depth with coaching practice to improve team dynamics and delivery outcomes. He brings a pragmatic systems mindset from large-scale warehouse control and retail systems into modern cloud and infrastructure problems. Colleagues describe him as the kind of manager who pairs deep technical ownership with clear, human-centered communication.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Trinity University
Github Skills (21)
api-rest10
puppeteer10
puppet10
api-design10
restful-api10
winrm10
command-line-interface10
bolt10
ruby10
command-line10
rest-api10
orchestration10
orchestra10
devops10
cli10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs-toy-chest/razor-server
Jun 2014 - Jan 2020
Razor is next generation provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 225 PRs, 205 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to backend functionality within the Razor server, focusing on command creation and modification related to policy and node metadata management. They implemented new commands like `update-policy-repo`, `update-policy-broker`, and `update-policy-node-metadata` to enhance policy management features. Their work involved modifying existing code to address issues like the `no_replace` flag in metadata updates and the synchronization of time across brokers. The user also refactored aspects of the code to deal with potential errors arising from background processes, ensuring robustness in the system.
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puppetlabs/bolt
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow. It can be installed on your local workstation and connects directly to remote nodes with SSH or WinRM, so you are not required to install any agent software.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the `bolt-server` project, adding functionality for remote execution and file management. They implemented new endpoints for running commands, uploading files, and executing scripts over SSH and WinRM. Furthermore, they integrated Puppet environment handling and plan metadata calculation, enhancing the orchestration capabilities of the server. The user also refactored error messages within the file cache module.
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