Scott Nath
Frontend Architect
Leader with a track record of success in translating business requirements and staff needs into powerful new web applications, infrastructure, and back-end tools critical for the delivery of flexible, reusable code designed to accelerate business goals. A strong and committed foundation in problem solving, inclusive developer mentorship with pair-programming and coaching, coding POC prototypes, and architecting innovative Design Systems that build consensus and cross-discipline collaboration via time-saving, user-centric web development environments.
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Core Expertise
Professional Experience
IBM CIO
Senior Software Engineer
Directed all aspects of DevOps architecture for a multi-framework design system with Storybook while increasing performance and efficiency through the development and launch of automated tools and cross-org systems.
Leader in implementing the Figma designs, a/b testing, i18n internationalization and developer processes on a complete rebuild of the employee portal, which combined 5 teams into 1 cross-functional collaborating team
Leadership role as the architect of an Innersource multi-framework design system and front end software engineering environment and tooling for the simultaneous creation of Vanilla and Vue.js components.
Inherited an existing, hand-released component library project and integrated version control, automated semver releases, extensive testing, and CI/CD with consistent and trustable release naming and scheduling.
IBM Watson Health
System Architect
Demonstrated continued success as the creator of architecture for the Watson Health Pattern & Asset Library (PAL).
Leadership role in the creation of Watson Health’s client-side design system for native and web applications.
Consolidated 3 disparate UI component libraries into 1 and standardized collaborative processes by architecting one design system which integrated UI design and inclusive user experiences for multiple teams.
IBM Watson
Senior Frontend Developer
Streamlined access to Watson developer documentation by creating a new open-source content management system.
Partnered with the design team tasked with creating a developer-centric and accessible documentation site adhering to IBM Watson AI development teams’s technical specs, reducing 8 distributed systems to 1
Lead architect the end-to-end completion of a full-stack open-source project, Punchcard CMS, which required backend functionality for immutable data, content versioning, and subscribe-able publishing gateways.
NBC Universal
Software Architect
Developed pixel-perfect HTML and CSS for customer-facing streaming applications.
Delivered reusable HTML/SaaS product while translating capabilities and features into in-depth documentation.
Created NBC’s WordPress system (NBCUPress) which included a focus on a reusable deployment system in PHP.
Open Source Projects
Profile Components
open source
Architect and Developer
– Present
Created native web components to learn web components
Created a set of zero dependency native web components to present user profiles from various social networks by querying the site APIs for the latest user profile
Styling to web standards and cross-browser compatibility using the newest browser-supported CSS functionality like nesting and container-queries
Architected fullstack DevOps solutions to ensure overall quality of the project including a Storybook implementation with user interface design testing and VRT (visual regression testing), CI/CD for automated deployment, releases, and testing, and auto-generated PRs for dependency updates
Test driven development using the native Node test runner, node:test, Guidepup for screen reader and web accessibility assurance.
jsonresume-theme-microdata
open source
Architect and Developer
– Present
Punchcard CMS
open source
Architect and Developer
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Designed and developed a server-side headless, open-source content management system built with a focus on quality through content-strategy reflecting real-world use cases and a lean Postgresql/postgres backend.
Architected full stack system architecture for auto-generated forms, localization, role-based administration, content approval workflows with revisioning, scheduled releases, caching, and subscriptions via webhooks.
The Chase
videogame.camp
meatspace
Inventor and Developer
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Created a raspberry pi-based remote camera live projection system
Hosted multiple in-person events where the public had to look for the ghost in the crowd
StoryDocker
open source
Architect and Owner
– Present
Implemented Storybook as a microservice using Docker Containers released as an open-source tool (StockDocker) able to be installed with zero dependencies and which features a full testing suite enabling prototyping and testing UI and user experience via Storybook’s testing-library integrations.
Eliminated the need for multiple implementations of Storybook (previously one for each application development environment) by introducing the ability for Storybook to run multiple JS frameworks out-of-the-box.