Scott Woods
Founder, Chief Executive Officer at West Arete
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Woods is a founder and CEO with 22 years of experience building mission-driven companies that blend software engineering, high-performance computing, security, and DevOps with progressive workplace design. He leads West Arete, a two-decade engine for socially beneficial software and radical people investment—paid family healthcare, sabbaticals, and coaching—that he credits for sustained high-impact delivery across 40+ projects. Co-founder of the Living Wage Institute, Scott translates public-good data and open transparency into practical products that improve employer and worker outcomes. His background in academic HPC infrastructure at Penn State informs a pragmatic, research-informed approach to systems and automation. Notably, he deliberately treats organizations as experimental vehicles for societal change, now sharing those patterns through new ventures like Positron.
22 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Penn State University
French
Github Skills (104)
vault10
service-discovery9
capistrano9
api-gateway9
hotel-booking8
golang8
data-center8
infrastructure8
consul8
ruby8
rails8
kubernetes8
mvc7
cloud-native7
ruby-on-rails7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
westarete/karma-server
Aug 2009 - May 2010
Contributions:113 commits in 8 months
woods/gravatar-plugin
Jan 2009 - Nov 2011
Contributions:15 commits in 2 years 10 months
ruby-on-railsavatarssuppliesview-helpersrails
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