Scott Walker
Principal Engineer at Lava.ai
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Walker is a Principal Engineer with over 11 years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in distributed systems from the University of St Andrews, now based in Belfast. He excels at simplifying complexity—often by identifying what not to build—to accelerate delivery and improve engineering feedback loops across cloud-native and infrastructure teams. His career includes senior technical leadership at Puppet and Harness and recent principal-level roles at Lava.ai, where he shapes architecture and developer productivity. Scott blends deep research-rooted understanding of distributed systems with hands-on execution in production environments, mentoring engineers and driving pragmatic trade-offs. Notably, his trajectory spans both academia and industry, giving him a rare perspective on turning formal distributed-systems insight into reliable, maintainable software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science (Distributed Systems), Ph.D. Computer Science (Distributed Systems) at University of St Andrews
Github Skills (77)
puppet10
provisioning10
clojure9
azure9
gcp9
automation-framework9
aws9
lambda8
infrastructure8
puppet-enterprise7
rest7
eagle7
nodejs7
serverless-functions7
rest-api6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/clj-puppetdb
Jun 2015 - May 2018
A Clojure library for querying the PuppetDB REST API
Contributions:7 commits, 20 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years
clojurerestrest-api
scottyw/tetromino
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:207 commits, 236 pushes, 46 branches in 5 years 2 months
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