Justin Scott
Founder CEO at Outpost Business Solutions
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Scott is a hands-on technology executive and Chief Information Security Officer with 12 years in senior leadership and over two decades of entrepreneurial and engineering experience dating back to running a global DNS service he founded in 1999. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he combines executive strategy with day-to-day technical work—reading logs, writing code, and contributing to open-source utilities such as improving Xcode management tooling. He has led technology and security for Smart Communications for more than a decade, scaling from VP of Technology to CISO while maintaining deep operational knowledge in networking, ColdFusion/SQL systems, and incident-level troubleshooting. Justin brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach to security that emphasizes reliability, graceful handling of edge cases, and mentoring teams to deliver maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Aviation Management, Bachelor of Science Aviation Management at Everglades University
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Github Skills (13)
ruby10
xcode10
command-line-interface10
command-line10
cli10
macos9
json8
cors6
html6
webworker6
javascript6
selenium6
fest4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xcpretty/xcode-install
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
🔽 Install and update your Xcodes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to improving the functionality and robustness of the `xcpretty/xcode-install` tool. They addressed issues related to handling Xcode versions on unsupported macOS systems, ensuring the tool could gracefully manage different Xcode versions. Furthermore, they made adjustments to how the tool identifies installed Xcode versions by replacing the Spotlight search with the `system_profiler` command, but later reverted this change. The user also fixed issues related to fetching simulator data, enhancing the overall stability of the tool.
macosupdatexcode
JScott/JScott.github.io
Sep 2013 - Oct 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 2 months
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