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.
14 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 (61)
django-project10
unc10
multi-user10
template-tags10
django-framework9
gdi9
python9
django9
creative-commons8
automata8
elections8
ansible8
figwheel8
debugging8
scheme8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
calebsmith/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:54 pushes in 8 years 7 months
caktus/django-template-graph
Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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