Scott Schretzenmaier
Software Engineer, Bug Squasher, Adventure Seeker
Hi, I'm Scott
I'm a motivated guy who loves building awesome defense software. I prefer backend development but I dabble with a bit of everything. I'm also a big fan of agile processes, both in development and in life.
- Email: schretzy929@gmail.com
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
Tech Stack
Experience
Software Engineer
June/2020-Current
Led the team of engineers who own playback functionality across all iOS devices for Amazon’s live radio app AMP
Prime Video, AMP
- Worked with product and project managers to roll out all playback features on time without causing regressions or defects
- Designed the state machine that manages the player’s state and emits telemetry for tracking the user’s experience
- Designed the automated integration testing suite for all playback components utilizing AWS Device Farm
- Implemented live HLS streaming functionality on Amazon’s C++ cross-platform player to unblock AMP’s Android and iOS cross-platform playback capabilities
Software Engineer
March/2017-June/2020
Led multiple agile engineering teams in designing and developing mission critical software for the Air Force
B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit, RAGE & GBSD
- Created algorithms for tracking GBSD design changes using their modeling software’s restful API
- Developed and implemented the release scheduling and weapon allocation algorithms for the B-1 Lancer’s MPE
- Implemented the foundation for automating integration and unit tests for safer continuous development
- Utilized agile methodologies to plan and prioritize the team’s tasks based on the user’s needs
- Mentored multiple junior engineers by providing both technical and career guidance
Solo Adventurer
August/2016-January/2017
A solo 6 month adventure across America summarized using D3 here
- Volunteered with Samaritain's Purse helping Louisiana flood victims
- Summited 24 of Colorado’s 14,000+ foot mountains
- Confirmed strategy and required actions for my five-year plan
ISD Rotational Engineer
July/2014-July/2016
A two-year leadership development rotational program designed for selected candidates to develop both technical and operational insight
App Development, UNIX Services, Enterprise Architecture
- Reduced the help desk’s call queue by developing the company’s Self-Help knowledge management tool
- Enhanced infrastructure analytics by acting as the technical lead for the creation of the IT data warehouse
- Increased my team’s visibility by leading demos for the data warehouse’s dashboards and visualizations
- Streamlined system engineer daily operations by creating Bash scripts for our Linux servers
Software Engineer Intern
June/2013-August/2013
- Designed and developed web based tool for administering support for a hierarchy of questions
- Actively participated in the team’s new agile scrum software development process
- Participated in numerous interviews for open Software Engineer position with team
Projects
Smart Bird Feeder! Building species saving technology
I had the opportunity to lead a team of engineers as we worked with the San Diego Zoo to develop a Smart Bird Feeder that monitors the health of the Hawaiian Crows. At the conclusion of a month the device we created included the following:
- A bird feeder that includes a variety of sensors to track the diet of each bird
- A repurposed android cell phone that records video of the crows as they feed
- Remote login capabilities to watch from the bird feeder at any time
- A user interface for tracking each bird’s status
- Tools:
- Android SDK
- Java
- A 3D Enclosure
- Teensy 3.2
- Team:
- Avery Bodenstein
- Andrew Miyaguchi
- John Madden
July/2019
Super Pi Boy
For my brothers birthday I decided to follow some tutorials online and build him an emulation station. Using my 3-D printer and some soldering skills I was able to encase a retro pi arcade into a small handheld device for him to play on the go.
- Tools:
- Raspberry Pi
- RetroPie Image
- A 3D printed enclosure
- Solder & Soldering Iron
March/2019
Von Karman Challenge
I led a team of four awesome engineers during Northrop Grumman's Von Karman challenge. Our objective was to create a rover that could navigate through the field, discover hidden QR codes and complete the various tasks encoded in them. Using ROS to handle the communication between the different components and OpenCV to interpret different QR codes, my team was able to successfully build a rover that we named MARV.
- Tools:
- ROS Kinetic
- Raspberry Pi
- OpenCV
- C++
- Team:
- Avery Bodenstein
- Andrew Miyaguchi
- Doug Toperzer
- Michael Uy
October/2018
Project Smart Egg! Taking the egg drop competition to new levels
In preparation for the egg drop competition the Fablab held a, 'Hatchathon' with the objective of creating the smartest egg on the planet.
- Tools:
- ESP32
- Highcharts JS
- A 3D printed egg
- Bluma's CSS Framework
- Team:
- Andrew Miyaguchi
February/2018
Algorithm Animation
My flight back to LA from Philly took forever, so I used it as an opportunity to build animations for some common sorting algorithms using D3. Here I randomly generate weighted lists of circles then, with the click of a button, I animate each step of the algorithm.
- Tools:
- D3 v4
- Twitter Bootstrap v3
- Hosted using Github Pages
January/2018
Adventure America
A lot of people have asked, 'when you left your job to travel the country, what did you do?' I used D3 to animate my cross country adventure.
- Tools:
- D3 v4
- Twitter Bootstrap v3
- AngularJS
- Hosted using Github Pages
January/2017
ExQuizit
ExQuizit is a Python/Django + Angular web app that allows users to login, create, take and share quizzes with other users.
- Tools:
- Django 1.9
- Python 2.7
- AngularJS 1
- Twitter Bootstrap v3
- Django Rest Framework v3
- PostgreSQL 9.2
- Hosted using Heroku
June/2016
Service Base V
SBV is a .Net web app for departmental knowledge management and problem tracking. The backend of ServiceBaseV was then used as the backbone to UPMC's corporate wide Self-Help system.
- Tools:
- C#
- .Net Web Application
- Microsoft SQL Database
- JavaScript/jQuery
- Twitter Bootstrap v2
- ADO .Net Entity Framework
January/2015
Education
- Graduated May 2014
- GPA: 3.07
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics- Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
- Minor in Computer Science
Away from the Screen
The beach is my favorite place to be and I surf every chance I get.
