# Scott McInnis

> Senior Software Engineer at Edify

Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/scottmcinnis

I'm a Software Engineer perpetually seeking complex problems and crafting elegant solutions. Specializing in Javascript, I spend much crafting elegant React/Redux experiences, Node backends, and SQL/NoSQL databases, however I'm always looking for excuses to dive into alternative techniques & technologies.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Edify
Jan 2020 – Present | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Andalusian | Open Source Microservice Management @ Open Source
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Developed a dynamic React front-end with a highly structured state hierarchy to isolate necessary properties from sibling class components within a single page application that uses functional components to modularize and maximize reusability.
• Spawned highly performant NodeJS child processes to perform resource intensive operations and interact with a variety of platform Command Line Interfaces in order to create, manage, update, and deploy microservices.
• Built NodeJS middleware to coordinate complex operations and a myriad of cloud platform microservice interactions.
• Utilized AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure Functions, Docker to add unique functionalities to deployed microservices.
• Implemented NoSQL schema and methods for database storage and transactions, offering an expedited request/response cycle
and streamlined user experience and ease of scalability for unrelated datasets.
• Used Bcrypt and Node’s native Crypto packages to offer encryption and decryption methods for securely storing and protecting passwords against rainbow table attacks and using 256-bit encryption for sensitive information within our NoSQL database.
• Wrote Webpack scripts and configurations to provide dev efficiency in Sass preprocessing, JS/HTML/CSS bundling, tree-shaking to reduce overall bundle size and increase load speed, and to serve both production and debugging development environments.

### Software Engineer @ Freelance
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Front End design, development & management for a variety of consumer facing businesses, including drbsandeigo.com and frequencywines.com.

### Freelance Graphic Designer @ Freelance
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
• Constructed EJS templates on a Node backend to actively pull content from a server and dynamically generate pages at run-time.
• Developed wireframes using UI/UX design tools and built a number of CMS backed websites on a variety of hosting platforms.
• Used Adobe Creative Suite to design vector graphics and high fidelity imagery for offset printing on product packaging.
• Frequency Wine Company - designed bottle labels, illustrations and embossing plates for multiple brands over many vintages. 
• La Dulce Vida Honey - label and logo creation, honey harvest timeline — adaptable label allows for variation in seasonal blends and varietals.
• Base Chalk - logo and packaging design.
• Trudeau Bread - logo design and packaging creation — hand screen-printing of over 1000 bags.

### Software Engineer @ Hewlett Packard Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, CA
• Created lightweight JQuery scripts to transform and append DOM elements for experimentation and A/B testing of UI/UX elements using Optimizely in order to increase customer engagement and conversion.
• Wrote JS automation scripts for batch processes in Adobe Creative Suite to optimize internal team productivity.
• Designed and developed digital assets, including but not limited to wireframes, images (jpg, webp, gif, svg, ps), and landing pages html, css) while adhering to tight timelines and stylistic standards.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Biology/Biological Sciences, General
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009

### Bachelor’s Degree in Fine/Studio Arts, General
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-mcinnis
- Website: https://mcmello.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22