Scott Manley (born 31 December 1972) is a Scottish-American YouTube personality, gamer, programmer, astrophysicist and DJ. On his YouTube channel, he plays space-themed video games, usually Kerbal Space Program, while he explains much of the science involved. He also makes videos discussing other science-related topics and news, mainly concerning up-to-date rocket science developments. He uses his scientific background to help teach science while playing games.
He is known among his followers as the "astronogamer", as he is one of the few YouTubers blending both video games and science, and he is popular in the niche community of space enthusiasts and gamers, especially the Kerbal Space Program community.
While studying at the University of Glasgow, Manley received a BSc (1990–1994) in physics and astronomy, and an MSc (1994–1995) in computational physics a year later.
In 2002, he worked as an engineer for Napster. Later, from 2002 up until 2004, he worked as a research engineer for Qualys. From 2004 to 2009, he worked as a security architect in imeem, where he developed and maintained an audio and video upload, transcoding, fingerprinting system among other things.
Manley's current employment is at Apple Inc. He joined Topsy Labs in 2009 and in 2013 Topsy was acquired by Apple.
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