Scott Windsor
Lead Software Engineer at Mechanical Orchard
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolScott Windsor is a Lead Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with nearly 20 years and 17 years of hands-on experience delivering high-performance applications across startups and large enterprises. He specializes in building and coaching agile teams, driving reliability and scalability from early-stage products to production systems. His recent roles span site reliability and principal engineering at companies like Flexe, Reflective, VMware, and Amazon, showing a strong blend of SRE rigor and software architecture. Comfortable switching between deep technical work and team leadership, he favors organizations that value software craftsmanship and measurable user impact. Not obvious from titles alone: Scott has repeatedly moved between pure engineering and reliability disciplines, indicating a pragmatic focus on shipping resilient systems rather than sticking to a single silo. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Virginia Tech and brings a long track record of evolving practices that scale with product growth.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science Mathematics at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (9)
activerecord6
internationalization6
rubygems6
shoes6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby-rails1
rails1
scheduler1
Github contributions (4)
sentientmonkey/vimfiles
Apr 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:23 commits in 7 months
swindsor/backgroundrb
Mar 2009 - Mar 2009
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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