Scott Pike
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- School: Texas A&M University
- Campus: College Station
- Department: Computer Science
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College Station, TX - Dates at Texas A&M University: October 2005 - October 2005
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Biography
Texas A&M University College Station - Computer Science
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 10 years leading research and development teams up to 8. Passion for quality.
Computer Software
Scott
Pike
Greater Seattle Area
From essential details to the big picture, I connect the dots to create a vision that inspires action. I reform processes, elevate data, and embrace customer experiences. What makes me tick?
• I'm driven by the adventure of discovery, especially puzzles and unknowns. I studied Philosophy at Yale for critical thinking about big unknowns, including universal questions like "Would you like fries with that?" Fortunately, I also learned logic, lattices, and linguistics to jump to Computer Science and tackle practical unknowns that impact everyday people.
• Next came grad school with a PhD at Ohio State and a professorship at Texas A&M. Some said, "Sure, he's a doctor, but the kind who actually helps people?" Yes! My passion was trying to change our world with award-winning research, and yet 20 publications later the next unknown was how to turn academic significance into real-world impact.
• So I came to Microsoft to reach a billion customers. Partnering with scores of teams, I spoke tech and exec as a collaborator, coalition builder, data analyst, and customer advocate to deliver key performance results for Windows Client, Server, and Azure. As a charismatic leader, I became a reformer to drive product quality, streamline efficiency, and connect with people about unlocking incredible user experiences.
At home, my hobby is running ultramarathons up to 100 miles in a day. It hurts up to a point, but only until your core values remain. Mine are excellence, interconnectedness, laughter, and adventure. That last one is my next unknown on a journey to build teams, products, and experiences that are better tomorrow than today. Is your next great Dev Lead or PM also unknown? If so, let's chat!
Skills = Charismatic Leadership | Team Development | Fearless Public Speaking | Technical Writing | Data Analysis | Server Performance | Azure Fundamentals | Distributed Systems | Test Automation | Service Excellence | Customer Obsession | Product Imagination | Moxie
Experience
Microsoft
Senior Software Development Engineer & Lead
Led senior engineering team from concept to production to deliver a best-in-class platform for Server performance validation. Integrated with existing stacks while innovating test solutions for containers, virtual networking, and Azure scenarios. Platform runs 30,000 test passes for ~100TB of weekly perf data. Also owned branding, reporting, partner engagements, and ecosystem growth.
Microsoft
Senior Software Test Engineer & Lead
Owned the performance gating strategy for code velocity and feature quality to ship Windows Client & Server over multiple releases. Transformed the business from manual to automated by rebuilding the labs to triple run capacity, parallelizing test content to run under 2 hours, and automating big data regression analysis to eliminate manual triage decisions.
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Researched algorithms for fault-tolerant distributed systems with a career total of over 20 scholarly publications, including two Best Paper Awards for advanced algorithms on isolating the impact of crash failures in dynamic or massively distributed networks. Research was funded by a competitive grant award of $889K from the National Science Foundation.
Texas A&M University
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Established the DELTA Computing Lab on Distributed, Efficient, Localized, Tolerant, and Adaptive algorithms. Built a team of 7 graduate students resulting in 2 PhDs and 5 Masters degrees. Taught courses on Operating Systems and Distributed Computing. Managed a $332K research budget with 8 scholarly publications, 2 technical program committees, and a National Science Foundation panel.
Higher Education division of John Wiley and Sons
Software Consultant and Contributing Author
Consulted for the WileyPlus digital media initiative to create a research-based online learning environment, including storyboards, tutorials, specifications, and over 1000 online interactive problems for the well-known “Operating Systems Concepts” textbook. Collaborated with publishers and developers in 3 time zones to implement, validate, and ship a successful worldwide product.
Education
The Ohio State University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Computer Science & Engineering
The Ohio State University
Master of Science - MS
Computer & Information Science
Graduate Associate Teaching Award
Ohio State's highest recognition for exceptional graduate student teaching across the entire university. Awarded to only 10 out of 3000+ annual graduate instructors. Required a rigorous teaching portfolio including pedagogical methods, curriculum development, student reviews, and faculty evaluations.Outstanding Graduate Student Award
University-wide award for outstanding contributions in leadership, scholarship, and service. Granted in recognition of my work to organize and extend graduate representation on faculty committees to include diverse voices and perspectives across the student spectrum.
Invented scalable techniques to minimize the impact of crash faults in distributed resource allocation problems by isolating partial failures to local neighborhoods of impact. Proved optimal algorithms and impossibility results for fault tolerance across process synchronization models to provide practical results about the limitations of temporal knowledge in developing highly-available distributed systems.Yale University
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Philosophy
Publications
Best Paper Award for "Dining Philosophers with Crash Locality 1"
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Think of a string of lights where a bulb burns out. Does the entire string go dark or just adjacent bulbs? This paper solved an analogous problem by constructing the first-known solutions for distributed mutual exclusion to isolate crash failures to local neighborhoods of impact in partially synchronous networks. Closed a complexity gap in distributed computing and provided practical algorithms for fault isolation. Awarded best paper among 475 peer-reviewed submissions.
Best Paper Award for "Dining Philosophers with Crash Locality 1"
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Think of a string of lights where a bulb burns out. Does the entire string go dark or just adjacent bulbs? This paper solved an analogous problem by constructing the first-known solutions for distributed mutual exclusion to isolate crash failures to local neighborhoods of impact in partially synchronous networks. Closed a complexity gap in distributed computing and provided practical algorithms for fault isolation. Awarded best paper among 475 peer-reviewed submissions.
PhD dissertation on "Distributed Resource Allocation with Scalable Crash Containment"
The Ohio State University
Invented scalable techniques to minimize the impact of crash faults in distributed resource allocation problems by isolating partial failures to local neighborhoods of impact. Proved optimal algorithms and impossibility results for fault tolerance across process synchronization models to provide practical results about the limitations of temporal knowledge in developing highly-available distributed systems.
Best Paper Award for "Dining Philosophers with Crash Locality 1"
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Think of a string of lights where a bulb burns out. Does the entire string go dark or just adjacent bulbs? This paper solved an analogous problem by constructing the first-known solutions for distributed mutual exclusion to isolate crash failures to local neighborhoods of impact in partially synchronous networks. Closed a complexity gap in distributed computing and provided practical algorithms for fault isolation. Awarded best paper among 475 peer-reviewed submissions.
PhD dissertation on "Distributed Resource Allocation with Scalable Crash Containment"
The Ohio State University
Invented scalable techniques to minimize the impact of crash faults in distributed resource allocation problems by isolating partial failures to local neighborhoods of impact. Proved optimal algorithms and impossibility results for fault tolerance across process synchronization models to provide practical results about the limitations of temporal knowledge in developing highly-available distributed systems.
Best Paper Award for "Crash Fault Detection in Celerating Environments"
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
Invented bichronal clocks as a novel composition of action clocks and real-time clocks to solve fault detection problems in celerating environments. Practical applications include round-robin hardware upgrades and denial-of-service attacks in massively distributed systems, where message delays are unknown and absolute process speeds can continually accelerate or decelerate within relative bounds. Awarded best paper among 440 peer-reviewed submissions.
Positions
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
Highest rank of distinction achieved by only 4% of all Scouts. Requires determination, excellence, and leadership, including an extensive community service project that is conceived, planned, organized, and managed by the Eagle Scout. My project created a physical inventory and database system to correlate and index 1000s of pages of sheet music (choral, jazz, orchestral, symphonic) within the school district.
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