Scott Baker
Senior System Administrator
Canby, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Baker is a Senior System Administrator and RHCE based in Canby, Oregon with 12 years of professional experience managing production Linux infrastructure. He has long-standing ISP experience at DirectLink/Canby Telcom, operating core services like DHCP, SMTP/IMAP, HTTP, NTP and monitoring stacks while supporting IPv6, OpenSSL VPNs and KVM virtualization. Scott focuses on Linux high-availability and pragmatic automation, keeping small-to-midscale networks reliable for thousands of customers. He also contributes to notable open-source projects — from Facebook's zstd to diff-so-fancy and the AGS engine — improving CLI UX, error handling and cross-platform tooling. Comfortable coding in PHP, HTML5 and jQuery, he bridges operations and backend development to deliver clear, maintainable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Microcomputer Specialist, Associate's degree, Microcomputer Specialist at La Salle High SchoolAssociates, Microcomputer Specialist, Associates, Microcomputer Specialist at Clackamas Community College
Github Skills (35)
gamedevelopment10
git10
gameengine10
difference10
c-language10
game-engine10
game-dev10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
file-io10
c1110
perl10
c1710
fileio10
commandline10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
Mar 2016 - Nov 2022
Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs. :tada:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 286 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the `diff-so-fancy` tool. Their contributions include fixing formatting issues, improving line counting for specific diff scenarios, and incorporating user configuration settings. Additionally, the user added command-line interface (CLI) functionality and implemented version information, enhancing the usability and user experience of the tool.
diff-highlightlookindiffsfancydiff
adventuregamestudio/ags
Nov 2013 - Jan 2019
AGS editor and engine source code
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the AGS engine's command-line interface and error handling. Their contributions included improving the `--help` message for new users, correcting error messages to be more informative, and standardizing the presentation of errors. Additionally, they updated command-line options to include doubledash versions for better compatibility.
agssource-engine
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