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Scott Barber

@scottbarber

Senior technology leader scaling engineering teams, building platform infrastructure and delivering AI-enabled product solutions.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering leadership roles where I can build and mentor teams, drive platform and infra strategy, adopt AI/LLMs, improve developer productivity, and ensure secure, scalable cloud operations.

I am a senior technology leader with deep experience building and scaling engineering organizations, platform services, and cloud infrastructure for startups and growth-stage companies. I lead engineering strategy, architecture, hiring, mentoring, and cross-functional programs while driving reliability, security and cost-effective cloud operations.

I have led platform, infra, integrations and product engineering teams across multiple companies, delivered migrations to container and Kubernetes platforms, owned InfoSec and compliance efforts, and launched AI tooling and LLM integrations. I focus on developer productivity, operational excellence, and enabling product teams to move quickly and safely.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Director Of Engineering

Current

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Feb 2025 - Present (8 months)

Managed technology, people and processes including software development, infrastructure and InfoSec; built engineering strategy and architecture and launched an AI suite for in-product validation while coordinating customer beta tests.

LLM LLMs OpenAI Anthropic AWS Terraform MySQL Java Spring Boot CI CD

Head Of Engineering

Level, Inc.

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 3 months)

Led engineering, infrastructure and InfoSec efforts to support legacy products and build a next-gen system for ledger, transactions and purchasing, driving architectural direction and team development.

AWS GCP)BigQuery Golang gRPC Protobuf React Kubernetes Terraform DevOps

Director Of Engineering - Platform

Built Technologies

Nov 2021 - Aug 2023 (1 year 9 months)

Managed Platform Engineering (Infrastructure, SRE, Integrations, DevEx) and led the transition from ECS to Kubernetes while owning cloud billing, lender integrations, and core platform services.

Python fastAPI AWS Kubernetes ECS Crossplane Microservices Terraform SRE

Director Of Engineering

Kazoo

Jul 2018 - Jul 2020 (2 years)

Led engineering, SRE and IT teams through cloud migrations, unified CI/CD and K8s PaaS rollout, reduced cloud spend and coordinated InfoSec/SOC2 audits and vendor pentests.

AWS GCP)Kubernetes Docker Ruby on Rails Terraform Monitoring SOC2 CI CD

CTO / Founding Engineer

Automotive

Jan 2014 - Mar 2020 (6 years 2 months)

Served as CTO for an automotive IoT startup, building backend cloud services for devices, coordinating offshore firmware development and directing engineering architecture.

Ruby on Rails AWS ECS Docker IoT Backend DevOps Cloud

Engineering Manager

Kazoo

Jan 2017 - Jul 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Built and scaled the platform and infrastructure team, migrating applications to AWS, containerizing Rails apps and overhauling logging, monitoring and CI/CD pipelines.

Terraform Ansible AWS Docker Kubernetes RDS Postgres CI CD Monitoring DevOps

Engineering Manager - Service Delivery

Instructure, Inc.

Feb 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 11 months)

Built internal platform teams and PaaS tooling to improve developer productivity, manage CI pipelines and reduce build times while leading a SWAT team for internal developer tooling.

Ruby on Rails Go AWS Jenkins CI CD PaaS Developer Productivity Gerrit Automation

Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Instructure, Inc.

Apr 2012 - Feb 2015 (2 years 10 months)

Scaled infrastructure for a large Rails application, introduced Ansible and Terraform for automation, and trained teams on configuration management and cloud best practices.

AWS Linux Ansible Terraform Puppet Postgres RDS EC2 S3 Infrastructure Automation

Manager - Systems Engineering

iMemories

Jun 2007 - Apr 2012 (4 years 10 months)

Built and led the infrastructure team, managed multi-petabyte datacenter storage, maintained hundreds of servers and desktops, and developed internal Rails apps for operational workflows.