Scott received his Ph.D. in 2013 from Washington State University and was a trainee in the NIH Protein Biotech Program. While at WSU, he researched tree fruit genomics, tissue culture, and characterizing plastid transition in developing apple fruit. Along with several coworkers in the Dhingra Lab, Scott co-founded Phytelligence, where he later served as the Director of R&D. He performed his postdoctoral work in the Nakata Lab at the USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center, focusing on identifying the genetic components of calcium oxalate formation in soy and spinach with the goal of increasing calcium bioavailability. Scott is currently a Scientist II in the Abiotic Microbial Evaluation team at Indigo Agriculture. His team works to screen endophytic microbes to quickly identify leads for new products to help plants tolerate stress and improve yield.