Scott Motte – Mot

Software Creative, in Los Angeles

Currently making dotenvx, a modern secrets management platform. Previously, I created dotenv, the widely-used open-source tool for managing environment variables. My work has helped shape developer tooling and infrastructure worldwide.

I specialize in developer experience, security, and tooling, blending engineering with design to create tools developers love.

Online and in open-source, I'm known as Mot.

Scott Motte – Mot

Dotenv, 2014.(See presentation)

Human First API Design, 2014.

Deprecating the Password, 2014. (See presentation)

US Patent #10,951,569 B2, 2021.

Dotenvx: Reducing Secrets Risk with Cryptographic Separation, 2025.