Andrew Smith
Research Engineer at University of California, Santa Cruz
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Smith is a research engineer based in Seattle with 10 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native IoT systems and distributed observability platforms. He has driven high-availability transitions and observability (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, tracing) at Microsoft for IoT Edge and contributed bug fixes and AMQP/authentication improvements to the prominent Azure/iotedge open-source project. His work spans low-level messaging, DevOps automation, and reliability engineering using Rust, C#, Kubernetes, and Azure, and he pairs that production experience with active research into biologically plausible networks and LLMs during his PhD work at UC Santa Cruz. Comfortable moving between industry-scale engineering and academic research, he also advises startups on secure IoT deployments and has a track record of building failure-injection frameworks and cross-platform test infrastructure that surface real-world edge conditions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Norfolk AcademyUniversity of California Santa CruzBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (14)
csharp10
dotnet-core10
amqp9
user-authentication9
authentication9
docker8
dotnet8
powershell8
net8
asp-net8
testing8
cicd8
dockers8
devops8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 1045 reviews, 457 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on fixing authentication and AMQP failures within the IoT Edge project. Their work included resolving duplicate environment variable definitions, ensuring AMQP functionality for X509 samples, and performing code cleanup using StyleCop. The user also addressed issues related to event hub consumer groups in testing environments, integrating additional consumer groups for cross-platform compatibility. They also modified the test scripts to support the addition of log files.
edge-computingossmqttedgeopc
and-rewsmith/RecurrentForwardForward
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Extending the recurrent network from Hinton's Forward Forward paper (Fig3). https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13345
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 127 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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