Scott Lininger

About Scott Lininger

Scott Lininger is the cofounder of Bitsbox, a Boulder Edtech startup with a subscription box service that teaches kids to code. More at https://bitsbox.comIn his clumsily planned career, Scott\'s been a dish washer, computer salesman, indie game publisher, and UI designer. He\'s helped hatch several startup companies, one of which he sold in 2007 to Google, where he worked as a senior software engineer. In 2014 he started Bitsbox, and has been teaching children to program ever since. One of his weirdest days was being on Shark Tank.On nights and weekends he writes fiction for both adults and kids, and participates in lots of game jams.Interests: Entrepreneurship, Software, Storytelling, Graphic Design, Webslinging, Illustration, Javascript, WebGL, 3D Art, Gameboy Dev, Game Design, Procedural Generation, Machine Learning, Escape Rooms, GLSL Shaders, Generative Ai

Experience

1. CEO CTO

   Bitsbox

   May 2014 — Present · Boulder, CO, US

   Bitsbox is new way to teach kids how to program computers. The Bitsbox system has two halves. First, a website where kids as young as six can program apps that run on real phones and tablets. Second, a monthly subscription box that arrives in the mail. Each month’s box contains dozens of programming projects to keep kids engaged.

Education

• University of Colorado Boulder

  BA, Bachelor Fine Art, Minor Computer Science

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Photoshop
• Sketchup
• User Experience
• Print Design
• Game Development
• User Interface Design
• Illustration
• Actionscript
• Android
• Software Development
• Python
• Webgl
• Mobile Applications
• Appengine
• Flash
• Graphic Design
• Git
• Google App Engine
• Indesign
• Objective-C
• Perl
• Css
• Software Engineering
• Rest
• Html5
• Kickstarter
• Php
• Web Design
• C
• Programming
• Writing
• User Interface
• Unit Testing
• Gameboy Programming
• Game Design
• Agile Methodologies
• Public Speaking
• Cowboy Coding
• Start-Ups
• Software Design