Scotty Eckenthal
Staff Software Engineer at Skylight
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScotty Eckenthal is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building product-focused web platforms and scaling early-stage engineering teams. He’s led frontend and full-stack efforts at startups and scale-ups—helping found teams at Fabric and Comprehensive, growing engineering orgs, and shipping MVP-to-production features across React, Gatsby, and serverless Node.js backends. A hands-on leader who still prefers terminal-driven workflows and dotfile tinkering, he combines pragmatic engineering with people-first management: hiring, career ladders, and structured performance processes. He’s an active open-source contributor to projects like Gatsby, improving UI components and documentation examples that help other developers ship faster. Based in New York, Scotty balances technical depth with an appetite for practical experiments—whether product growth tests or a new recipe—not to mention a fondness for dogs on bikes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Trinity College-Hartford
English
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
web-application10
ui-design10
uid10
webapp10
gatsby10
react10
redux9
front-end-development9
frontend8
graphql8
web-developer8
wordpress-graphql8
wpgraphql8
static-site-generator7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 28 PRs, 78 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Scotty primarily contributed to the development of front-end features and examples within the Gatsby framework. Their commits focused on creating and modifying UI components, implementing examples, and updating the user interface, including changes related to navigation, styling, and layout. The user also demonstrated the ability to integrate external libraries, such as Redux, into the Gatsby framework. These contributions helped expand the framework's capabilities and improved the user experience of the documentation and example projects.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
fabrictech/gatsby
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Transform plain text into dynamic blogs and websites using React.js
Contributions:45 pushes, 27 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 6 months
reacttransformreact-jsplainplain-text
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