Chris Smith
Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software at Equinix
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Smith is a Senior Staff Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and cloud-native product software, with two decades of hands-on development experience and a decade in senior roles. Based in Toronto, he blends Rails, React and Java Spring Boot expertise with deep practial knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes, Spinnaker and ArgoCD to drive reliable CI/CD and automated canary deployments. He has architected private cloud orchestration on OpenStack, reduced deployment times from hours to seconds, and led teams building production-grade microservices and provisioning automation. Known for mentoring engineers and running proofs-of-concept for automated canary analysis, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong focus on delivery, observability and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology, Graduated with Honours, Diploma in Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology, Graduated with Honours at Humber College
English
Stackoverflow
7,309reputation
907kreached
136answers
24questions
kubernetes-helm
top-5%
Github Skills (79)
network-visualization10
powerdns10
ruby10
automation10
menu10
infrastructure10
continuous-testing10
puppet10
maas10
provisioning10
infrastructure-management10
react-component10
html-table10
subnet10
virtualization10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grizzthedj/smart-proxy
May 2019 - Jul 2022
RESTful proxies for DNS, DHCP, TFTP, BMC and Puppet
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
golangtftpdnspuppetrestful
grizzthedj/smart_proxy_phpipam
May 2019 - May 2022
Foreman Smart Proxy plugin for IPAM integration with phpIPAM
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 11 months
ipamphpipamproxyforeman
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