Scott Adams - Software Architect

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# About Me

Software architect on Intuit Mailchimp's reporting platform, where data for 1M+ users runs through systems I designed and maintain: a 32-billion-row click pipeline, the bot-filtering data foundation behind a company-wide launch, and a RESTful query API the rest of the team builds on. I work end to end and pick the language the problem calls for, mostly PHP, Java, Kotlin, and TypeScript, and let AI coding tools carry the boilerplate. Before this, eight years as a CTO across four startups, where I learned to care about code review, uptime, and shipping on a predictable cadence.

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{

"company": "Tensure (Intuit Mailchimp)",

"role": "Software Architect",

"period": "May 2023 - Present",

"description": "Designed and shipped the pipeline enriching a 32-billion-row click entity with user-agent and geo data, the foundation for the company-wide Bot Filter launched to 100% of Mailchimp's 1M+ customers",

"challenge": "Resolve a P0 scalability failure mid-migration, cutting search-cluster load from 700 to 200 TPS and halving GraphQL request volume, then recover corrupted reporting data for all 1,056 affected accounts across 250,000 backfill jobs and 20+ sharded databases with zero failed shards",

"results": "461 PRs across 13 services at 92% merged, 308 PRs reviewed, and engineering lead on 9 company-wide launches; unified click-counting logic into one team-wide paradigm now powering a StarRocks query engine that streams 500K+ contact exports in under 3 seconds",

"stack": ["TypeScript", "React", "Kotlin", "Go", "PHP", "MySQL", "AWS", "GCP", "Splunk", "Wavefront", "Grafana"],

}

{

"company": "AcquireCrowd",

"role": "Chief Technology Officer",

"period": "April 2021 - June 2023",

"description": "Stabilized inherited infrastructure within 60 days, eliminating recurring outages and restoring a predictable bi-weekly release cadence",

"challenge": "Architect event-driven AWS pipelines for programmatic adtech, including a consumer identity graph spanning Neptune and Redshift",

"results": "Significantly reduced data pipeline processing time and broadened audience reach while driving down infrastructure costs",

"stack": ["TypeScript", "JavaScript", "PHP", "Laravel", "Vue", "AWS Lambda", "SQS", "Step Functions", "Neptune", "Redshift", "DynamoDB", "SageMaker", "CDK"],

}

{

"company": "Fluxo",

"role": "Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder",

"period": "January 2020 - April 2021",

"description": "Co-founded a consumer fintech startup; shipped MVP in under 30 days on AWS Lambda, Laravel, and Vue",

"challenge": "Real-time financial calculation engine with WebSocket-driven interactive charts handling hundreds of concurrent user sessions at sub-second response times",

"results": "Secured first paying customers within 6 weeks; consumer experience patterns directly applicable to live trader dashboards and payments flows",

"stack": ["PHP", "Laravel", "Vapor", "Vue", "Inertia", "WebSocket APIs", "MySQL", "AWS Lambda", "SQS", "RDS", "EC2", "ElastiCache"],

}

{

"company": "Perigon Health",

"role": "Chief Technology Officer",

"period": "July 2018 - January 2020",

"description": "Player-coach engineering leader for a consumer health IoT/mobile platform, hands-on with architecture and code",

"challenge": "Ship a second-generation IoT health device end-to-end (firmware, mobile, cloud) on STM32/BLE/Mongoose OS while rebuilding the consumer mobile app on React Native",

"results": "React Native rebuild drove measurable increases in user engagement and retention; established CI/CD, structured code review, sprint ceremonies, and on-call practices",

"stack": ["React Native", "TypeScript", "Python", "Go", "PHP", "Laravel", "Vue", "MySQL", "AWS", "IoT Core", "DynamoDB", "STM32", "BLE", "Mongoose OS"],

}

{

"company": "Career Now Brands",

"role": "Chief Technology Officer",

"period": "April 2014 - April 2018",

"description": "Architected the technology platform that supported 10x revenue growth over four years",

"challenge": "Build and operate 20+ web properties on Laravel, Vue, and AWS, serving millions of monthly visitors at 99.9% uptime",

"results": "Established hiring processes, structured interviews, technical standards, and on-call rotations as the engineering organization matured",

"stack": ["PHP", "JavaScript", "Laravel", "Vue", "MySQL", "AWS EC2", "RDS", "ElastiCache"],

}

~/scottadams.dev $ls ./latest-tech

Frontend

React

Vue

TypeScript

JavaScript

Tailwind

Backend

PHP

Java

Kotlin

Python

Golang

Data

StarRocks

Redshift

OpenSearch

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Platform

Amazon

Google

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

Monitoring

Grafana

Splunk

Kibana

Sentry

Bugsnag

Generative

Claude

Codex

Cursor

Copilot

Gemini

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