Scott Fryxell

Lead engineer on SEEQ, a full-stack product that returns about 100 scored dimensions for a 300-word story. A few hundred stories is tens of thousands of scores, and making that legible is the product. I built the data model, the API, the queue feeding 50+ self-hosted models, and the analysis researchers read: tallies, correlations, score bundles, and clusters, recomputed in dependency order as new stories land, with CSV exports out. I also built the chat view, where a project's totals are always in context and any slice behind them - story text, demographics, scores, surveys - can be pulled in to go deeper.

Realness turns a photo into layered vector graphics on your own device: mosaic tiles, shadow gradients, and color pulled from the image itself. No models, no cloud - classical computer vision, by choice, so the person drawing keeps creative control. The result exports as SVG, layered PSD, or GLB into Illustrator, Photoshop, Blender, or a video editor.

I built it internet-native: a PWA that installs from the browser, works offline through a precache service worker, and syncs when you sign in. Its microdata vocabulary is the object model, unchanged from render to persistence. It is precise enough to select against that the CSS is bespoke and unscoped, making elegant use of the attributes. The interface serves mouse, keyboard, and thumb; GPL-2.0, self-hostable, checksumable.

Consulted for VueSchool, a developer services company in Amsterdam, on developer relations. Diagnosed and fixed performance problems on a WebRTC-based mobile streaming platform (Happs.tv), quadrupling throughput by addressing latency and playback issues. Guided an insurance broker through their Vue 2→3 migration, with an emphasis on developer experience and team adoption.

Built the VueSchool hiring app from idea to release in under three months, opening a new business vertical. Helped companies interview candidates, screening for craft and team culture as much as technical skill.

Savvy connected teachers and learners through live video. As lead engineer, I architected and built the MVP in three months, then hired the dev team and shipped the beta, a double-sided marketplace built on WebRTC and Stripe that treated both educators and students as valued participants.

Tout explored citizen journalism: 15-second video from anyone, embedded by regional news outlets across their sites. I built the administrative console those outlets used to configure their content, and worked on the JavaScript SDK and the partner-site video players that reached their readers. When Tout set its policy on ad blocking, I argued it is a clear signal to respect, and that respecting it was the faster route to adoption.

Copper was a browser-based micropayment system for content creators, a precursor to Patreon built from the conviction that creators deserve to be paid for their work. I architected a finite-state machine backend with Rails and Postgres, integrated Stripe as escrow, and built browser extensions that could identify creators from social embeds and tip them directly. We achieved an 80% hit rate on automated creator discovery.

Led the development team through funding, legal, and brand development with Hattery Labs. Every design decision started from the same question: how do we make it as easy as possible for someone to support the people whose work they value?

Took over an internal AdWords purchasing application built in Adobe Flex. Ported the code base to Rails and completed the project 9 months ahead of schedule.

Implemented new functionality for the homepage and the site’s most popular feature, “Never Ending Movie Quiz”, on a site peaking at 8.3 million page views a day. Optimized site for search engines. Evangelized and helped the adoption of more consistent javascript framework.

Architected and implemented a publishing rights application. Built a Lucene search service able to query over 2 million tracks with result times consistently ten times faster than the existing system, on a site drawing 67 million visitors a year. Created a continuous build system with the help of Maven and Continuum. Leveraged Prototype, Scriptaculous and some of my own event based insanity to focus the middle tier on marshaling data to the client.

Developed cross-browser backward and forward compatible User Agent framework based on Tapestry. Designed a client event model that supported multiple event bindings, dynamic component initialization based on custom HTML attributes. Created a development environment that abstracted developers from the specifics of how the user interface functioned.

Worked with offshore developers on struts, tiles, and general application development. Implemented a development build system that supports deployment to multiple applications servers and operating systems. The build was customizable at appropriate resolutions and ran 500% faster than the previous build system.

Spearheaded the refactor of the user interface to conform to web standards, decreasing page size sixty percent, while increasing cross-platform browser support, both forward and backward compatibility, application skinning, global print capabilities, as well as WAP and palm support. Implemented a templating mechanism to increase code reuse and simplified development workflow.

Managed a team of 5 developers from design through release. Architected and drove the implementation of the presentation layer for an enterprise application management portal. Evangelized, implemented, and maintained a modular approach for the user interface elements, which increased code reuse and reduced time to market

Facilitated the migration of a knowledge management portal application from ColdFusion to J2EE. Mentored 6 developers through this transition. Proposed the application architecture and development migration path from ColdFusion to java, which entailed porting an unwieldy, two-tiered web application, to a scalable, multi-tiered, fault-tolerant enterprise application. Designed a security system applied at several levels of granularity throughout the application.

Provided technical support to client engineers, prospective customers, and business partners. Performed onsite installations and integration of application. Introduced departmental reorganizations, and development processes such as use cases, functional specification, design meetings, code reviews, that increased application stability and the capacity to add features quickly.

Ported the beta of the product from a rigid, duplicative, asp.net application architecture to a multi-tiered, MVC based, Java application. Evaluated and implemented drivers for use with Microsoft’s SQL Server that resulted in a three fold increase in application scalability. Developed personalization and security services that let other developers focus on application specifics.

Designed and built a secure, configurable browsing environment for children. Parents determined what content reached their kids while young users had room to explore safely. The project was an early reminder that software's deepest responsibility is to the people who can't advocate for themselves in the system.

Developed and maintained Visual Basic applications for the different departments within the firm. Designed and implemented an unattended Windows NT desktop installation which included the installation of 23 applications for 1400 users firm wide. Developed regression tests to ensure application stability. Organized the firm’s technical support efforts. These efforts noticeably decreased the turnaround time in addressing users support issues.