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Scott Batson · Staff Engineer, Medium(rounds up — counting from the job I lied to get)years of shipping software and still waiting for someone to notice I'm making it up.
Built teams from scratch at startups, led them at Netflix, now a Staff Engineer at Medium. Kept a book blog the whole time. The work is below, roughly in order of how proud I am of it.
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Now · Staff Engineer
Medium
Where the writing and the engineering finally share a desk.
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Medium Engineering · Sep 2026 · 8 min read
What We Built for Medium Editors This Year (and What I Broke)
A behind-the-scenes look at bulk declines, decline reasons, a content calendar, and one very bad hour
Read on Medium Engineering ↗she said this before I bought coffee, for the record →
“He taught me so much about problem solving, collaboration, mentorship, and how being a kind, patient, supportive engineer is just as important as being a smart one.”
two million. I checked twice. ↓Code
Open source
Nineteen repos, from Ember core to a Firestore mock for Jest that somehow has two million downloads. Some I own. Most I just fixed a thing in.
WordsTech blog & YouTube
How I lied to get my start in tech, why meetings are sometimes fine, and twenty-four tutorials with 150,000 views between them.
More wordsThe book blog
Fifty-odd essays on fantasy, publishing, and whether Brandon Sanderson is actually a bad writer. Also a few short stories that sold.