Connor Smyth is an engineering manager in Ottawa with eight years of experience building and scaling high-performing software teams and production-ready systems. He has a strong track record leading GraphQL migrations and supergraph architectures, introducing feature flags for safer experimentation, and improving API and developer productivity across multiple organizations. Connor blends hands-on engineering (from CI/CD and DevOps to full-stack work) with people leadership—mentoring engineers into senior and management roles while running on-site roadmaps and performance coaching. He’s delivered reliability-focused outcomes in healthcare and e-commerce contexts, reducing latency and meeting SLOs through proactive monitoring and incident response. A former game developer and app publisher, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered mindset and an appetite for technical craftsmanship alongside team development.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Ontario Scholar, High School Diploma, Ontario Scholar at William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute
Information Technology, Cognitive Science, Information Technology, Cognitive Science at York University
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 31 commits in 2 months
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