Scotty Shaw
EUvsVirus Chief Technology Officer at European Commission
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScotty Shaw is a technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience who currently serves as Chief Technology Officer for the European Commission’s EUvsVirus initiative and as Founder/President of Tech Tree Root. He designs and scales large virtual hackathons and education programs—having launched HackDuke, HackCOVID, and the US arm of EUvsVirus—to mobilize thousands of volunteers across languages and regions. A Duke-trained computer scientist with additional business credentials from HBX/Harvard, he blends product, community-building, and hands-on engineering, particularly in web and iOS ecosystems. Scotty is fluent in organizing multilingual teams (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and several East Asian languages) and recruiting distributed developer talent under tight timelines. Beyond tech, he has sustained long-term coaching and tutoring commitments that reflect a strong focus on mentorship and social impact. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of civic tech, education, and rapid-response engineering to turn community energy into deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (iOS Software Engineering), Computer Science (iOS Software Engineering) at Duke UniversityCORe: Credential of Readiness, Business Analytics, Managerial Economics, and Financial Accounting, Pass with High Honors, CORe: Credential of Readiness, Business Analytics, Managerial Economics, and Financial Accounting, Pass with High Honors at HBX / Harvard Business School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
swift1
spritekit1
flappy-bird-clone1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Tech-Tree-Root/EUvsVirus
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 270 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
Tech-Tree-Root/HackCOVID
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:148 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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