Scott Dover

SAS is a data analytics company that provides software and services to help businesses make better, data-driven decisions. There are a few meaningful things I've been able to work on at SAS so far:

• I've furthered the development of a new version of SAS studio, a platform we're converting from a proprietary UI framework to more modern tooling (React/Typescript).
• I took on a secondary responsibility of developing our SAS extension for VSCode, and am now the lead developer on that project. As a result, I've been nominated to attend/give a demo at SAS Innovate, a yearly conference for our customers and partners.

Research Square is a company on a mission to make research publication faster and fairer for everyone. In my role as a Senior Software Engineer at Research Square Company, I've had a variety of new opportunities that leverage my experience and subject-matter expertise:

• I worked more closely with our product team to help prioritize and scope projects and was responsible for facilitating daily standups and sprint planning.
• I worked with our China team to plan and deliver a new way of issuing Fapiao (a Chinese payment receipt) to our customers that obviates the need for a third-party vendor, saving us a significant amount of money in processing fees.
• I had the opportunity to mentor two direct reports and have aided them in launching several projects, including the launch of digital editing and translation services.

As a software engineer at Research Square Company, I had a wide leeway on how to architect a new product and modernize existing products. My role gave me the opportunity to tackle many large projects. Here are a few that I am very proud of:

• I streamlined four different e-commerce purchase processes into a single consistent system for our author services business line.
• I created a retrospective tool for our various Scrum/Agile teams across the company to revisit their work, have effective conversations, and fuel continuous improvement.
• I worked on improving internal tooling and created a Pull Request bot to ensure fellow engineers would review pull requests promptly.
• I worked over the course of multiple years to consolidate our legacy tech stack (two versions of a PHP framework, three templating engines, several ways of building assets) into a modern Dockerized API backend with a React/Redux front-end.
• I worked with HR to update our survey policy to eliminate the use of gender-specific identifiers, and have had a growing role in DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.

Everwondr, the main product produced by Pursuit Of Happiness, is an events management platform used by several CVBs (Convention and Visitors Bureau) in North Carolina. During my tenure there, as the sole developer, I was responsible for creating and maintaining the entirety of the code base, as well as managing all sysadmin operations.

I was a full-stack developer at MadMonk, a consultancy, where I primarily focused on building websites and applications for non-profits in and around Greensboro, NC.