Summary
Scott Zetlan is an engineering manager with 11+ years in software roles and two decades of user-centered technical leadership, currently leading engineering at Kin Insurance. He combines hands-on architecture and platform work—modernizing legacy stacks, building Java microservices, and improving test coverage—with people leadership, having scaled and mentored teams across Zola, Teachstone, and Booz Allen. Scott has a track record of delivering high-visibility projects that increase automation, reduce onboarding time from weeks to hours, and drive measurable QA improvements (e.g., raising test coverage by 40%). He thrives in ambiguous, client-facing environments where prioritization and pragmatic engineering align product roadmaps with business outcomes. Based in Charlottesville and grounded in a Commerce/MIS degree from UVA, he pairs enterprise experience dating back to AOL with startup-style execution and a continual focus on sustainable, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Delaware
B.S., Commerce/Management Information Systems, B.S., Commerce/Management Information Systems at University of Virginia
Spanish, French, Haitian Creole