Will Scott
Senior Engineer at Xero
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWill Scott is a senior engineer based in Boulder, Colorado with eight years of experience building and operating data platforms and cloud-native services, currently at Xero. He blends software engineering and DevOps expertise—moving from DevOps Engineer for Data Platform to Senior Engineer—while also mentoring in data science and shipping an FAQ chatbot that outperforms major cloud providers' offerings. A summa cum laude computer science graduate, he pairs rigorous engineering practices and design patterns with a practical CI/CD mindset and hands-on deployment skills (Docker, GCP, Flask). Outside of core engineering he co-founded an ethical e-commerce marketplace, handling SEO, analytics, and operations, reflecting a strong product sensibility and entrepreneurial drive. He’s equally comfortable in low-level fabrication and high-level ML pipelines, a sign of uncommon breadth and a curiosity that fuels continual learning, coding, and travel.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 4.0, Computer Science, 4.0 at The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.93, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.93, Summa Cum Laude at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github Skills (15)
naive-bayes8
sapper7
whitespace6
sass6
html6
syntax6
nlp6
css6
natural-language-processing6
nlp-machine-learning5
chatbot5
nyc4
semantic-search3
svelte2
testing2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
willtscott/javascript-hide-and-seek-bootcamp-prep-000
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:262 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
willtscott/inquire-boulder-chatbot
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
A chatbot that uses NLP on the Inquire Boulder FAQ text to provide answers to user queries.
Contributions:144 commits, 34 PRs, 119 pushes in 5 months
nlpnaive-bayesnlp-machine-learningsemantic-searchboulder
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