Scott Simpson
Senior Software Engineer at WP Engine
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Simpson is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, platform services, and storage solutions from startup teams to large enterprises. He has led and grown engineering organizations at Rackspace, Unity, H-E-B, and SWIVEL, driving cloud migrations, Kubernetes-based architectures, and cross-functional teams that delivered production-grade tools including a Unity/C# pipeline that processes millions of product records monthly. A pragmatic hands-on contributor, Scott has committed meaningful fixes to OpenStack Swift—improving proxy request handling, header management, and logging—reflecting deep expertise in object storage internals. Based in San Antonio, he blends software craftsmanship in Go and Python with proven people leadership, scaling teams rapidly while improving delivery and security posture. Notably, he transitioned between individual IC impact and managerial roles multiple times, demonstrating both technical depth and the ability to architect operational processes that reduce bottlenecks.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at St. Mary's UniversityCal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (8)
http-header10
python10
server10
server-side10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/swift
Apr 2011 - Oct 2012
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions focused on modifying the Swift proxy server's code, specifically concerning request handling and header management. They added the `Accept-Ranges` header to GET and HEAD requests, enhancing the functionality of the server. Several commits fixed tests related to headers, content types, and iterators, improving the reliability of the project's testing framework. Additional commits addressed access logging, ensuring accurate client IP logging, and fixed a bug related to content-type handling.
openstackswift
sasimpson/ke5eo
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 85 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 1 month
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