Scott Bezek
Senior Software Engineer at Vanta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Scott Bezek is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across embedded firmware, mobile, and backend infrastructure. He has led cross-functional engineering efforts—most recently at Vanta and previously at Skip where he launched a custom scooter product—while also contributing deeply to Android and CI infrastructure at Dropbox. His hands-on background spans vehicle firmware, IoT haptics (including a custom haptic smart knob with magnetic encoder integration and virtual detents), and large-scale Android test automation. Comfortable shipping full-stack solutions and mentoring teams, he combines low-level embedded expertise with platform-scale engineering know-how.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
firmware10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
serial-communication8
i2c8
spi8
configuration-management7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scottbez1/smartknob
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 12 reviews, 94 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott focused on implementing and improving the haptic input knob's firmware. Their contributions included implementing detent functionality, endstops, and an auto-adjusting centerpoint feature. They also integrated a new magnetic encoder (MT6701) and modified the existing TLV493d sensor library, while also working on persistent configuration storage. They also added LED and strain gauge functionality with associated demo modes.
hapticdetentsdefinedknob
scottbez1/6.270
Sep 2010 - Dec 2012
Contributions:57 commits in 2 years 3 months
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