Scott Pavetti is a member of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Software Engineering professional program and has been teaching core Software Engineering courses since 2020. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a tech lead at the Software Engineering Institute in the Security Automation directorate within CERT where he led a small, multi-disciplinary team that operates two compute laboratories, develops software solutions for government customers, and consults on software engineering best practices.

He’s worn a number of job titles, such as research programmer, senior software engineer, tech lead, and software quality engineer. Within those roles, Scott has accumulated broad set of product development experiences ranging from mobile and desktop development, small IT deployments, embedded, to IoT systems. As a software quality engineer, he developed quality plans, software development plans, conducted requirements workshops, and even architected a few products. He also has two patents related to indoor navigation and their associated methods.