I'm Scott VanDeWater, a hands-on engineer, architect, and engineering leader.
I enjoy solving meaningful problems, building useful products, and exploring better ways to develop software.
A public experiment exploring how coding agents can participate in disciplined engineering workflows through human mentorship, deterministic controls, testing, review, and accountability. The current implementation supports supervised development.
An independent, functional pre-beta application exploring personalized wine recommendations through AI-assisted identification, structured information, and deterministic taste scoring.
Designing and modernizing business-critical infrastructure, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and observability. At Intrepid, optimization efforts reduced cloud infrastructure costs by approximately 53% from previous peak spending.
Good engineering starts with understanding the problem.
I value practical decisions, collaboration, and taking responsibility for results. I want to understand what matters, work through constraints with others, and build things that work.
Read My ApproachIf you'd like to talk about engineering, a project, or working together, I'd be glad to connect.