Scott Macmillan
Software Infrastructure Engineer at Harvard FAS Research Computing
Massachusetts, United States
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SeniorScott Macmillan is a software infrastructure engineer with a decade of experience building and operating tooling for large-scale research compute environments, currently supporting a ~2,000-node cluster for Harvard FAS Research Computing. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code and observability, working daily with Terraform, AWS, Grafana, Puppet, and Choria to keep high-performance scientific workflows reliable and auditable. Prior roles span product and engineering positions at startups and game companies, reflecting strong operational instincts and a founder’s mindset from running his own companies. Based in Massachusetts, he pairs hands-on automation skills with a practical appreciation for researcher workflows, often focusing on internal developer tools that make large clusters manageable behind the scenes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CommanderTso/puppet-gitlab_ci_runner
Aug 2022 - Jul 2025
Module to mange gitlab CI runners. Extracted from https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-gitlab
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
gitlab-civoxpupulipuppetrunnersgitlab
CommanderTso/recipe-scribe
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:28 PRs, 40 pushes, 30 branches in 4 months
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