Scott Wittenburg
Staff Developer at Innovative Autonomous Systems, Inc.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Wittenburg is a Staff Developer based in Santa Fe with 12 years of software engineering experience focused on backend systems, test automation, WebGL visualization, and CI/CD tooling. He contributes to notable open-source projects—helping harden Kitware's Girder data platform, extend ParaView web testing with Python and Selenium, and improve vtk-js rendering examples—demonstrating a mix of backend robustness and graphics-oriented full-stack skills. Scott has also driven DevOps improvements for Spack, streamlining buildcache signing, mirroring, and pipeline generation to make large-scale builds more reliable. Comfortable across languages and layers, he brings practical expertise in API design, automated testing, rendering pipelines, and build infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that improve test coverage and developer experience, and he often tackles the less visible but critical plumbing that keeps large projects shipping.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (32)
webgl10
git10
javascript10
selenium10
python10
apidoc10
gitlab-ci10
package-management10
rendering10
testing10
selenium-ide10
render10
cicd10
gitlab10
api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:558 reviews, 142 commits, 332 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott's commits primarily focused on modifications to the Spack package manager, particularly in relation to CI/CD pipelines. They addressed issues related to buildcache operations, ensuring proper signing and index updates, and enhanced the pipeline generation process. They also contributed to improving the handling of mirrored content, making builds more efficient.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
Kitware/ParaView
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
VTK-based Data Analysis and Visualization Application
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:194 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to the development of a testing ParaViewWeb application. They implemented a Python-based server and a basic HTML interface for testing module registration and various web protocols. Furthermore, the user wrote test scripts using Python's requests module and the Selenium library to interact with ParaViewWeb applications and perform automated tests. They also added CMake macros to facilitate web-based test addition and added functionality for capturing and comparing screenshots within these tests.
data-analysisvisualization-applicationdata-visualizationopen-sciencescientific-visualization
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