Chris Smith
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Smith is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience leading teams that build and scale distributed systems and developer infrastructure, currently managing Developer Infrastructure at Facebook from Redwood City. He previously led realtime analytics and developer experience organizations at Uber, growing teams to 15 and supporting thousands of engineers while delivering high-throughput data platforms and CI/source tooling. Hands-on early in his career, Chris has built realtime analytics, notification, and backend systems across Python, Go, Node, C#, and JavaScript, and he operationalized services at significant scale using technologies like Riak, Redis, and Elasticsearch. He contributes to open source documentation—improving usability for widely used libraries such as arrow-py—reflecting a focus on clarity and developer productivity. With an academic background spanning psychology and computer science up to an MS, he blends engineering rigor with an awareness of human factors in team and product design.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
apache-arrow10
python10
arrows10
arrow-js10
documentation10
datetimes9
dates9
datetime9
timed8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
arrow-py/arrow
Nov 2012 - May 2019
🏹 Better dates & times for Python
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:226 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily focus on updating the project's README.rst file. These updates involve modifying the documentation, including examples of how to use the arrow library, instantiations, accessing properties, and converting between time zones. The edits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the user's understanding and clarity of the library's usage. Through these updates, the user has improved the overall usability and accessibility of the library for other users.
pythonarrowdatetimetimestamp
crsmithdev/hint
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
A simple mindfulness reminder for macOS
Contributions:5 releases, 19 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
macos
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