Caleb Smith
Software Engineer IV at Sinch Mailgun
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Smith is a Software Engineer IV with 14 years of full-stack and platform experience, currently building backend services for email analytics and deliverability at Sinch Mailgun. He combines deep functional-programming expertise in Clojure/ClojureScript and strong systems work in Rust, C, Erlang, and Python to design reliable, concurrent distributed systems. Caleb has led engineering teams and platform initiatives—driving migrations to service-oriented architectures, search and image-processing improvements, and on-demand 3D rendering services—bridging product, DevOps, and performance-sensitive graphics workloads. As a LinkedIn Learning author and former instructor, he translates complex technical topics into teachable frameworks and documentation. His toolbelt spans databases and messaging (Postgres, Datomic, Redis, RabbitMQ), infrastructure automation (Docker, Ansible), and front-end stacks (TypeScript, React), enabling end-to-end ownership. Based in Durham, NC, he often brings a musician’s attention to structure and iteration to solve challenging engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Music Education, Music Education at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
English
Github Skills (37)
django10
template-tags10
gdi9
debugging9
python8
automata8
raspberry8
figwheel8
runner8
scripting7
scheme7
vim-plugin7
cellular-automata7
ansible7
mailgun7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
calebsmith/django-template-debug
Jun 2012 - Nov 2017
A small collection of template tags for debugging and introspecting templates
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 years 5 months
debuggingtemplate-tags
calebsmith/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:54 pushes in 8 years 7 months
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