William Scott
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Scott is a data engineer and computational designer with 11 years of experience building production ETL pipelines and geospatial analytics for municipal government, currently advising the NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations. He blends dual master's training in City Planning and Computer Science to bridge urban systems and software—routing real-time mobility and cleanliness data to executive dashboards using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS Glue, and Athena. A seasoned GIS practitioner, he moves between ESRI ecosystems and FOSS geospatial tools (Shapely, Fiona, GeoPandas) and exports spatial data into R and Pandas for advanced analysis. His applied ML experience spans scikit-learn and CNNs for aerial image pattern recognition, complemented by strong SQL, Matlab, and practical data science chops. Outside government work he runs Baroque++ creating algorithmic jewelry via C# Grasshopper, illustrating a rare mix of production-grade engineering and generative design. Based in Newark, NJ, he pairs municipal-impact projects with entrepreneurial design practice and multilingual cultural exposure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyMaster of Architecture - MArch, Master of Architecture - MArch at Pratt InstituteBachelor of the Arts Social Science, Bachelor of the Arts Social Science at New College of FloridaMaster of City Planning Urban Design, Master of City Planning Urban Design at University of PennsylvaniaCertificate of Completion Data Science, Certificate of Completion Data Science at General Assembly
Japanese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (164)
javascript10
arcgis10
api10
rest10
outlook10
mysql10
onenote10
spatial-data10
jupyterlab-extension10
nodejs10
microsoft-graph10
graphql10
microsoft-teams10
spfx9
no-code9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
MODA-NYC/db-recovery-data-partnership
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Data pipelines for datasets that are part of the Recovery Data Partnership project
Contributions:18 reviews, 307 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year 10 months
data-pipelinedata-pipelines
SteveScott/EvePIProfit_github
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:332 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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