Scott Lanoue

Seattle / Software engineer

I’m building email that’s actually yours

I’m Scott, a software engineer and lifelong nerd in Seattle. I founded Comail and lead it full time, building cooperative email on atproto toward a member-owned co-op. For eight years I’ve shipped software for smart TVs, phones, web browsers, and the cloud.

ComailFounder

01 / Work

Work

I’m a full-stack generalist with a background in distributed systems at Amazon. I’m comfortable with data models, services, infrastructure, and product interfaces. I’m open to full-time, part-time, contract, and one-off software work.

Sifa IDAvailability LinkedInWork history GitHubCode and projects TangledCurrent code
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Comail

Cooperative email on atproto. I’m building a shared relay and personal inboxes toward a member-owned co-op.

Founder
Full timeVisitBackgroundInbox waitlist
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ATProto OIDC bridge

AT Protocol sign-in for Tailscale and regular OIDC apps, without making Google, Microsoft, or GitHub the identity layer.

Identity bridge
Technical noteHow it works
03

Threadline

A time-helix explorer for atproto posts, profiles, feeds, and Tangled repositories.

ATProto explorer
Live toolOpen ThreadlineBuild note

02 / Recent

Recent code

TangledCurrent code GitHubCode and projects

Repositories

pds-operator

An easy to set up and operate PDS admin panel.

atmosphere-office

Full document, spreadsheet, slideshow, and diagram tooling

atmosphere-mail

Cooperative email for PDS operators

03 / Writing

Writing

LeafletEssays MediumOlder writing

04 / Photos

Photos

A few places I’ve been lately

GrainAlbums and stories BlueskyPhoto posts

Albums

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Sunset photo of Baker Lake, with water in the foreground and mountains in the background. Baker Lake SunsetBaker Lake Road · Aug 25

Recent

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Screenshot of a post from Scooty @scottlanoue.com 19h, including a plethora of account labels from around the atmosphere like "Top Chicken Eligible", "Margin", "co/core", "Flushes", "Streamplace", "Leaflet", "Tangled", "Standard.site", "Grain", "Roomy", "Other PDS", and "Joined Jan '25". Text content says: "I thought we needed a custom ROM to see the benefits of an Atmosphere OS, but @astrra.space showed me how we could accomplish the same with stock Android" including a link to a leaflet article title "No Fork Required" with a cover image of Scott's dog does this look like I'm suggesting we eat my dog Recent photo from Seattle, Washington, United States Seattle, Washington, United States Screenshot comparing the same test email in Comail and Bluesky’s Spaces alpha PDS. On the left, Comail’s Bulwark interface shows the message and its raw source, with a comail-pds-sha256 identifier highlighted. On the right, PDSls shows the corresponding email.atmos.message record in my mailbox Space, with the matching logical message ID highlighted. The Comail inbox below shows the email titled “Test.” Yoooo, it works!! That's an email stored in my Spac… Screenshot of a customized PDS Operator dashboard showing five authentication feature flags. Email second factor, passkeys, cross-device approval, and remembered-device reuse are off; “Same-device comail OS approval” is on. Each flag includes a description, override status, toggle, and reset control. what if PDS feature flags were openfeature.dev back… Stack of fresh flour tortillas Fresh tortillas >>> working on a blog post Recent photo from Seattle, Washington, United States Seattle, Washington, United States

05 / Contact

Email me

Have a role or project in mind? Tell me what you’re working on.

intake@scottlanoue.com