# Scott K.

> Software Engineer

Location: Denver Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/scottk

I am a pragmatic programmer, teacher, and engineering leader energized to leave communities better than I found them.
Passions that serve my purpose in life are education, food & agriculture, music, and travel/adventure.
In the spirit of a life-long learner I enjoy creating, building, writing, music, gardening, cooking, mindfulness, traveling, reading, snowboarding, and biking.

## Work Experience
### Staff Fullstack Engineer @ Quizlet
Jan 2024 – Present | Denver, Colorado, United States
Magic Notes and Study Guides.

### Staff Engineer @ Eventbrite
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Focused on Search & Discovery to help bring the world together through live experiences. Implemented a real time inference pipeline for encoding Semantic Search embeddings and Hybrid Search in Opensearch, Python microservices, AWS CDK.

### Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering @ Quizlet
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Quizlet is a learning technology platform with over 60 million 28 day active sessions while school is in session. At peak traffic, we serve 25k requests per second (measured at the edge, uncached requests)

My current focus in data engineering is establishing a machine learning production platform to accelerate data science and product engineering adoption of new machine learning models.

Python3 (FastAPI) | Stream Processing

### Staff Software Engineer, Explanations @ Quizlet
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Denver, Colorado, United States
I am an engineering leader focused on the Explanations product domain (step by step solutions, Key concepts)
Kotlin Spring Boot Microservice | GCP Spanner | Elasticsearch | Kubernetes | Terraform | Monolithic HackLang (PHP) Application |> quizlet.com/explanations

### Staff Software Engineer, Search @ Quizlet
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Quizlet Search | Elasticsearch owner
Search @ Quizlet has indexed over 23 billion documents (10 TB) of user generated content, with peak loads indexing 4k documents per second and serving 1k queries per second.

### Senior Software Engineer, Search @ Quizlet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Founded our search team. Developer Advocate for search implementations. Upgraded our Elasticsearch cluster from 2.x to 7.x and migrated from self-managed VM's to a hosted service.

### Senior Software Engineer, Marketplace @ Quizlet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Improving premium content marketplace conversion through the search funnel.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pico
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Denver, Colorado
Building an operating system for the Creator Economy at an early stage startup on a team of 5.

Javascript ES6 | React/Redux | Node.js | MySQL | Elasticsearch | Redis | AWS | Stripe

### Software Engineer @ Pico
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Denver Area

### Software Developer @ Brewery Solutions
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Denver, Colorado
Full stack engineer working on enterprise resource planning software for craft breweries on a small team. Happily utilizing PHP 7, React/Redux, and complex relational datastores in mysql.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Assurant
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Java | Angular 1 | Relational Datastores | Telephony

- Developed softphones in Java interacting with Cisco's CTI OS server. 
- Introduced a unit testing standard for Spring-based RESTful web services. 
- Designed and delivered an AngularJS 1 web portal to streamline configuration of softphones.

### IT Resident @ Assurant
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
C# | Relational Databases | jQuery

A role-rotating residency program. Worked with a mentor on projects in various business domains.

### Security Administrator @ Assurant
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
In a temporary position, I worked alongside Assurant Security Advisors and Security Analysts to survey 3rd party vendor security and ensure compliance with our security standards.

I coded macros using Visual Basic to reduce manual processing time of vendor security questionnaires.

### Guest English Teacher @ EPIK (English Program in Korea)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Busan, South Korea
I taught English as a second language to elementary grade students at a public school in Busan, South Korea.
- Developed lesson plans to expose grades K-5 to the English language and Western culture.
- Interacted with students in solo and co-teaching environment.
- Epic Snowball fight.
- Rapidly adjust and thrive in different cultures.

### Customer Service Staff @ Publix Supermarkets
Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 | Tampa & Orlando
Roles included: 
* Front End Coordinator (on duty team lead for Customer Service personnel)
* Cash Office (accounting for store sales)
* Front Office (returns, money services, lotto)

Worked part time through high school and college. Publix has a focus on premier customer service - I developed skills to brighten up a random person's day :-)

### Editing Intern @ The Florida Review
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | UCF
Read a plethora of short stories from people submitting work to The Florida Review and collaborated with peers on making suggestions for publishing.


## Education
### Creative Writing in English
University of Central Florida


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-kamps-duac

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Last updated: 2026-03-22