Scott Adams
Senior Software Engineer · Systems Builder · Cloud & Infrastructure Experience · Founder of Backup Verified
Professional Summary
Senior software engineer with extensive experience building dependable backend systems, production web applications, operational tooling, and cloud infrastructure. Background includes both individual contributor and engineering leadership roles across payments, SaaS, cloud operations, and infrastructure-focused environments.
Strong technical foundation in Perl, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, AWS, Terraform, REST APIs, and cloud operations, with a practical emphasis on maintainability, reliability, observability, and clear execution.
Founder of Backup Verified, a platform designed to independently confirm that encrypted backups remain intact, retrievable, and provably recoverable.
Technologies
Professional Experience
Founder · Backup Verified
Founded Backup Verified to solve a common gap in backup systems: independently confirming that encrypted backups remain intact and retrievable.
- Designed and built the platform end-to-end, including the backup agent, verification pipeline, cloud infrastructure, customer portal, and operational tooling.
- Implemented a verification model based on client-side encryption, cryptographic checksums, managed storage, and independent retrieval-based integrity checks.
- Built the product around a simple goal: backups that are not just stored, but provably recoverable.
Senior Software Developer · Cash Express, LLC
Full-stack web application development with emphasis on Perl, JavaScript, MySQL, and maintainable business-critical systems.
Senior Software Engineer · ClickMagick
Full-stack product development using Perl and JavaScript, contributing to core platform functionality and infrastructure improvements.
Cloud Architect · Vindicia
Worked on CloudOps and DevOps initiatives, including infrastructure automation, deployment systems, and cloud operational improvements.
Cloud Operations Manager · Vindicia
Hands-on technical manager working with a global team of cloud architects and cloud engineers on deployment reliability, infrastructure as code, and cloud best practices.
Software Engineering Manager · Vindicia
Managed a production application support engineering team responsible for critical production systems in a payments-focused environment.
Software Engineering Specialist · Vindicia
Perl developer for REST APIs, payment processing, and account management systems.
Senior Software Engineer (contract) · Scenario Learning
Worked with Perl, Ember.js, Backbone, jQuery, PostgreSQL, and AWS in a contract engineering role.
Manager Software Engineering · Capital One
Manager and tech lead for efforts related to SparkPay mobile payments processing. Worked across Perl, Linux, Nginx, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, and operational tooling.
Web Application Developer · Capital One
Web application development for mobile payments processing using Perl, Linux, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, and related tooling.
Web Application Developer and Team Lead · ValueClick Media
Perl developer and team lead with emphasis on backend internal administration tools, Linux systems, and MySQL/Oracle-backed applications.
Web Application Developer · HostGator
Web application development using Perl, JavaScript, jQuery, and MySQL.
Perl Software Engineer · Questmark Information MGT
Developed document management and generation solutions for financial and legal documents using Perl scripting, data parsing, PostScript generation, and print/mail workflows.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — previously held
- AWS Certified Developer — previously held
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator — previously held
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate — previously held