Joseph Scott leads the Performance Operations ( PerfOps ) team at Automattic. Because no one likes a slow web site.
2007 - Present : Automattic
Currently leading the Performance Operations ( PerfOps ) team. Before that I led the DevOps team, the Security Operations team, and the VaultPress team. Other previous teams assignments included Akismet, WordPress.com, along with work on WordPress.org.
With a big WordPress focus much of my backend efforts have been around PHP, MySQL, and Memcached.
1999 - 2007 : Office of Water Programs @ CSU Sacramento
As part of a small IT department I did a bit of everything - from desktop support, systems and network admin, and software development.
1996 - 1999 : American Informetrics ( regional Internet Service Provider )
The era of dial-up Internet access. Covered everything from customer support, web design, backend development, systems and network admin.
1995 - 1996 : Alphatec Electronics USA
As part of an awesome IT department I worked mostly on desktop support.