Scott Young
Senior Director Innovation & Intelligence
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Young is a Senior Director leading Innovation & Intelligence at SAP with 13 years of engineering and leadership experience bridging AI, Web3, and product delivery from Palo Alto. A former Navy fighter pilot and instructor, he brings operational rigor and high-stakes decision-making to building scalable machine learning pipelines and decentralized apps. He’s shipped production systems at Salesforce that powered insights and alerts across multiple product lines and has co-founded startups at the intersection of AI and proptech. Hands-on across front-end and back-end stacks (Kafka, Scala, Spark, Kotlin, React) he thrives in cross-functional settings and enjoys turning research and prototypes into real customer value. An uncommon blend of combat-proven leadership and deep engineering craft, he focuses on practical innovation that solves human problems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Computer Science, Masters of Science Computer Science at DePaul UniversityFlying Car Nanodegree, Flying Car Nanodegree at UdacityCertificate in Web Publishing, Certificate in Web Publishing at University of California San Diego, ExtensionUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (3)
directive7
overlay5
angular3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
coding4kicks/angular-flashcards
May 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 1 year 1 month
overlayflashcardangulardirective
coding4kicks/up-only
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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