Scott Handley
Co-Founder at NorthStar Software LLC
Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott H is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building privacy-first, customer-centric products and leading teams from prototype to scale. As Co-Founder of NorthStar Software and previously Jawger, he blends hands-on technical architecture with executive leadership to deliver decentralized, privacy-by-design social platforms and on-device encrypted apps. His enterprise background at Cisco, NetApp, and HP underpins strong system design, multi-tenant security, and content-publishing expertise that solved large-scale compliance and performance challenges. Scott pairs product intuition with grassroots organizing experience—having led successful citizen initiatives to protect natural parks—bringing uncommon community mobilization and user advocacy to product strategy. He is an accidental activist and local-first decentralized web advocate, currently focused on advancing digital self-determination through the fediverse and AT Protocol ecosystems. Based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, he combines startup grit with proven delivery across both consumer and enterprise domains.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California Program for Entrepreneurship (CAPE), California Program for Entrepreneurship (CAPE) at Santa Clara University Leavey School of BusinessBS, Decision and Information Sciences, BS, Decision and Information Sciences at Santa Clara UniversityStartup School Founder Track - SUS17, Startup School Founder Track - SUS17 at Y-Combinator's Massively Open Online Course (MOOC)Valedictorian, Valedictorian at Aptos High School
Github Skills (15)
social-media10
atprotocol10
lexicon10
swift-package-manager9
swift9
api9
image-picker8
aws-sdk8
pocketmine8
aws-sdk-js-v38
aws7
networking7
ios7
nodejs6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mcprostar205/pocketmine-plugins
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 releases, 9 commits, 8 pushes in 23 days
mcprostar205/ATProtoKit
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
A straightforward solution for using the AT Protocol and Bluesky, written in Swift.
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year
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