Karega Scott
Software Engineer at Consultant, Solution Architect Developer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKarega Scott is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience designing scalable, data-centric systems across monolithic and microservice architectures. He combines formal education (MS in Business Information Technologies, BS in Computer Science) with self-taught curiosity, delivering full-stack solutions and CI/CD workflows in Agile environments. His background spans enterprise roles—leading .NET architecture and performance optimizations at Newell Brands—to consulting and freelance work building secure, standards-compliant intranet and web applications. Comfortable bridging technical and contractual domains, he has negotiated SLAs/NDAs and guided cross-functional teams through sprint delivery. Based in Chicago, he blends hands-on coding discipline with a practical focus on accessibility, security, cost-efficiency and long-term maintainability. An R&D-minded practitioner, his Github repositories emphasize exploration of use cases and reproducible software research rather than just polished demos.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Business Information Technologies, Master of Science - MS, Business Information Technologies at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Truman State University
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Github Skills (76)
dotnet10
efcore9
change-tracking9
linux9
database9
linq9
cloud-computing9
web-application9
windows9
entity-framework9
dotnet-core9
webpack-loader9
orm9
schema-migrations9
ghost9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kscott5/RescueShelter
Jul 2017 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 release, 279 pushes, 8 branches in 8 years 7 months
kscott5/AccountManager
Mar 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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