Author

Scott Finlay

Staff Engineer

Scott is a software developer from the United States currently living in Germany. He studied computer science at the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in security. He enjoys writing code, writing technical articles, learning new things, and solving problems.

Scott has worked at Sixt since 2016, working in a variety of teams covering topics such as CRM, digital checkout, reservations, third party integrations, and the Security Guild.

3 posts by Scott Finlay

01

Golang's Atomic

Golang is a highly concurrent language and the atomic package is one of its most valuable and unknown synchronization mechanisms.

Engineering6 min

03

The Bot Saga

There comes a time in the lifespan of all large websites when bot traffic becomes an issue on some scale or another. This happened to us, and here's the long road we traveled.

Security5 min