Christopher Smith
Staff Software Engineer at SmartThings
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Smith is a Staff Software Engineer based in Saint Paul, Minnesota with over a decade of experience building robust, object-oriented systems across domains from embedded aeronautics to modern web applications. He is fluent in Groovy/Grails, Java and C++, and has repeatedly moved between legacy and greenfield codebases, bringing strong design discipline, test-first practices and pragmatic DevOps tooling. At SmartThings he operates at staff level, and his background includes large-scale mission systems at Lockheed Martin and healthcare-focused Grails work at Bloom Health, showing comfort with both safety-critical and consumer-facing systems. Colleagues rely on his clear communication and mentoring as much as his knack for untangling thorny technical problems. He pairs deep systems knowledge with hands-on coding—and an ability to learn new languages and platforms quickly—making him effective in cross-functional teams. An underrated strength is his longevity across complex organizations, which gives him a rare perspective on maintaining and evolving long-lived software.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at West Virginia University
Github Skills (34)
iot-application10
tuya10
handlers10
upnp10
tasmota10
hue10
smartthings10
zwave10
esp3210
zigbee10
macos-sierra9
keyboard9
karabiner9
holochain9
iot9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chrisfsmith/dot-files
May 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years 7 months
chrisfsmith/oh-my-zsh-custom
May 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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