Christopher Coleman-smith
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Coleman-smith is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed storage systems, currently at Waymo after leading Colossus maintenance at Google. He began as a physics researcher with a PhD from Duke, bringing rigorous modeling and statistical calibration skills to complex systems engineering problems. A former Site Reliability Engineer for Bigtable and Senior Performance Engineer at Akamai, he combines deep operational experience with low-level programming enthusiasm to optimize performance and reliability across massive clusters. Christopher excels at bridging theory and production—applying numerical methods and probabilistic emulation techniques from his academic work to real-world storage and networking incidents. Based in Stony Stratford, England, he is known for shepherding distributed storage lifecycles and tackling both high-impact incidents and subtle hardware-level faults.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student (EAP) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Exchange Student (EAP) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Duke UniversityMasters of Phsyics (MPhys) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Masters of Phsyics (MPhys) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (6)
openframeworks5
bullet3
physics2
ray2
python2
bullet-physics1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jackdawjackdaw/pcl-projects
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:54 commits in 28 days
MADAI/MADAIEmulator
Jun 2009 - Aug 2012
Contributions:581 commits in 3 years 1 month
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