Scott Volk
Scott brings engineering leadership and an unrelenting obsession with systems that simply cannot fail — turning dysfunctional organizations, corruptible hardware, and impossible constraints into reliable, high-performance outcomes across telecommunications, renewable energy, IoT, EdTech, and mission-critical operations. As Founder and CEO of Missionloops, he consistently solves problems that others have already declared unsolvable.
Scott’s career began in Canada’s optical telecommunications sector, where he worked alongside elite engineers to deploy networks faster and at dramatically lower cost. He pioneered low-cost deployment strategies using inexpense off-the-shelf hardware to replicate multimillion-dollar equipment capabilities, created field support protocols for non-literate technicians, and developed recovery techniques for “zombie-mode” database-compromised nodes. Leading cross-functional “tiger teams,” he diagnosed outages through technical, psychological, process, and organizational lenses, mastering the navigation of bureaucratic resistance while internalizing a core truth: in large organizations, you can either be someone or do something — he chose to do.
Mentored by former U.S. defense-industry embedded engineers in the renewables sector, Scott built firmware for distributed energy systems, authored solar panel-network simulation software, and architected statechart-based microgrid control systems. His innovations include phase-locked loops, anti-islanding algorithms, custom power-surge profiles, DSP techniques that eliminated expensive transducers, and advanced battery-charging algorithms. A personal tragedy later drove him into early childhood EdTech, where he engineered a Bayesian statistical inference engine with real-time feedback control for “speed arithmetic” and a JavaScript-SVG compiler that generated adaptive math games — keeping children in their zone of optimal learning while revealing profound parallels between childhood emotional dysregulation and adult performance under pressure.
To fund his ventures, Scott founded a boutique engineering consultancy delivering IoT, telecommunications, and grid-tie inverter solutions. He authored the open-source Python statechart library Miros and designed a resilient boot management systems a utility scale three-phase power inverters — featuring encrypted bootloaders, FPGA/flash drivers, and compression algorithms that operated reliably despite spontaneously corrupting hardware forced by dysfunctional supply chains.
Today, at Missionloops, Scott is building an encrypted, AI-guided ecosystem that embeds OODA loops into collaborative workflows, backed by distributed hardware security modules and self-transforming file systems. The platform equips individuals and organizations to turn “hard and messy” problems into decisive advantages, fusing technical excellence with psychological resilience to create transformative outcomes.
Email: scott (at) missionloops (dot) ca