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About Me
Hey there, my name is Scott Motte. You can call me Mot, for short.
I am a software developer from Perris, CA, now living in Los Angeles, CA. I love to code, specialize in Ruby, and have a talent for product.
I'm self-taught and creative. I can ship code with the best of them. I'm continually learning and believe that it is not how good you are but how good you want to be, and at the moment I'm taking the Stanford Machine Learning course.
Check out my code on GitHub, take a peak at my resume, or reach out to me at mot@mot.la. I'd love to hear from you!
Community & Talks
I wouldn't be where I am today without help from the community. I've tried to pay it forward and the following shows off some of that.
- Founder of Riverside.io
- Founding organizer of Riverside JS
- Talk: Tropical Ruby - Deprecating the password
- Talk: JS.LA - Deprecating the password
- Talk: JS.LA - Module of the month
- Talk: JS.LA - Getting started with React Native
- Talk: Human First API Design
- Teaching code using Arduinos, NodeJS, and rockets
- Teaching open source contribution with Startup Shirts
- Hackathon: Organizer of Codeday LA
- Hackathon: Winner of CES Hackathon
- Hackathon: Winner of Startup Weekend
Products & Open Source
I ❤️ the creative process of writing code. It is often more art than science to me. It's cathartic as well, and I spend much of my spare time doing it. The following shows some of the work I've done - both products I've built and open source I've created.
- Pixel
- Miss Mint
- Flossed Today
- Post Congress
- Signature.io
- Carve API
- HandshakeJS
- Moto Permit
- Leaderboard App
- Investapp
- Scottbalance
- Twinstang
- Gumbio
- Motte Historical Museum
- Retromail
- Github Streaker
- Numbers
- Disposable Email
- Gridracer
- SouthernHotel.org
- Kibble
- Mailtub
- Ocean Manager
- Employment: Bitium
- Employment: Rebelmail
- Employment: SendGrid
- Employment: Planning Center
- Consulting: Oakley
- Consulting: Code Campus
- Consulting: Kony 2012
- Consulting: Donately
- Consulting: Donately Form JS
- Consulting: World Vision ACTS
- Consulting: Gumroad
- Open Source: Dotenv
- Open Source: Node Lambda
- Open Source: SendGrid NodeJS
- Open Source: Digital Ocean Rubygem
- Open Source: Click to Cloud
- Open Source: Signature Pad
- Open Source: History Sniff
- Open Source: Ansible Pi
Writings
One of my continual regrets is that I do not write more often. Nevertheless, below are some writings I've done.
2017
- How to Build a Facebook Messenger Bot with Ruby on Rails
- Machine Learning Checklist
- How I negotiated a raise using analytics
2016
- Calculating Euclidean Distance in Ruby
- Deploying Sails.js to Google Cloud
- Getting Started with Sails.js: Install Node, Sails, and Postgres
- How I setup my new machine
- Beginners guide to Docker with Rails
- Beginners guide to Mutations with React Native and Relay
- Getting Started with React Native and Relay
- Getting Started with Rails: Installing GraphQL
- Getting Started with Rails: Install Ruby, Rails, RSpec, and Postgres
2015
- A Beginners Guide to Continuous Deployment to Amazon EC2
- A Beginners Guide to Deploying NodeJS to Amazon EC2
- Packed
2014
- Possessions
- Amazon Lambda Best Practices: Development and Deployment
- I'm becoming a Rebel
- How I setup my new machine
- Last Day at SendGrid
- Gmail Plugins
- Favorites: G-Eazy
- Favorites: Double Stuf Oreos
- Routine
- r301: Redirect Old Domain to New Domain
- A Clockwork Orange
- Hobbiton - New Zealand Day 6/7
- Abel Tasman - New Zealand Day 4/5
- Cook Strait - New Zealand Day 3/4
- You Should See the Stars - New Zealand Day 2
- Create your First Heroku Buildpack
- Hello World with Apex
- Host Your Own Disposable Email App
- Open Source: Pull Request Driven Development
- How to Launch a Rocket with an Arduino and Node.js
- Complete Guide to Set Up Raspberry Pi Without a Keyboard and Mouse
- Remember to Floss With an Interactive Reminder Email
- Long Live the Informal Hackathon
- Keep Your New Year’s Resolution to Code More
2013
- A Sinatra and Heroku Application Template in 20 Lines
- Get Going with Go and Redis
- Let’s Deprecate the Password: Email-only Authentication
- Jacob Lowe and Scott Motte
- How We Found the Cloud Integration Trifecta
- Beginner’s Technical Guide to the SendGrid Parse Webhook
- Send Email with Meteor and SendGrid
- My First Major Hackathon
- Sipping from the SendGrid Java Library
- Parsing Every Contact into a Daily Email
- Movies Now Screening in Your Inbox
- Hollywooding My First Hackathon as a Developer Evangelist
- Easy-loading Environment Variables in Node
- Remember People’s Names with a Digestible Daily Email