| Kevin Scott | |
| Alma Mater: | Lynchburg College Wake Forest University University of Virginia |
| Occupation: | Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft |
Kevin Scott (born 1972) is Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft.[1] He was previously Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn from February 2011 to January 2017.[2] [3]
Kevin Scott grew up in Gladys, Virginia.[4] [5] He holds a bachelor's degree from Lynchburg College in computer science and a master's degree from Wake Forest University in computer science.
He enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia.[6]
After dropping out of his doctoral program in 2003,[7] Scott started his career at Google and held numerous positions in search and ads engineering, including receiving a Google Founders' Award, before leaving the company in 2007.[8] He was VP of engineering and operations at AdMob from July 2007 to June 2010.[9] Google acquired AdMob in 2010 for $750 million (~$ in) and Scott became Sr. Engineering Director of mobile ads engineering at Google.[10]
Scott joined professional networking site LinkedIn in February 2011, as senior vice president for engineering.[11] LinkedIn held its initial public offering in May 2011, and Scott was credited with scaling the company's computer systems to keep up with accelerating demand.[12] Business Insider called Scott "the engineer who saved LinkedIn".[13]
In January 2017, soon after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, Scott was named Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer by CEO Satya Nadella.[14] He retained the title of senior vice president of infrastructure at LinkedIn until September 2017.[15] Scott described himself as feeling "like a kid in a candy store" because of all the exciting technologies Microsoft is working on.
Scott is the founder of Behind the Tech, a non-profit organization that profiles people who work in technology on its website through photographs and interviews with the goal of inspiring others.[16] In 2014, Scott and his wife, Shannon Hunt-Scott, created The Scott Foundation, a San Francisco Bay Area organization that focuses on issues such as education, hunger, and STEM for children. He is also an emeritus trustee of the Anita Borg Institute[17] and was a founding member of the ACM Professions Board.[18] He advises several startups, is on the board of directors for Magic, and is an angel investor.[19] Since January 17, 2021, he is member of the board of directors of the automobile manufacturer Stellantis as non-executive Director and member of the ESG Committee.[20]
Scott is married and has two children. He lives in Los Gatos, California.