Dan Smith
RD Engineer Software 6 at Pivotal
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Smith is a seasoned RD Engineer with 15 years building high-performance distributed systems and backend platforms, currently based in Portland and working at Broadcom after a long tenure at VMware. He specializes in storage, data access, and cluster management, contributing bug fixes and enhancements to notable open-source projects like Apache Geode. His work blends deep debugging and performance tuning—addressing memory allocation, statistics accuracy, and index behavior—to keep large-scale data services reliable. Dan has moved through roles from performance engineering to staff-level architecture, bringing practical experience across startups and enterprise teams including Pivotal and GemStone Systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to thorny infrastructure issues and for turning subtle metrics and memory observations into concrete fixes. He studied at Harvey Mudd College and brings a methodical, systems-first mindset that surfaces non-obvious causes in distributed environments.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (11)
javas10
distributed-systems10
geode10
java10
concurrency10
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
performance-tuning8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Dec 2010 - Aug 2022
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:214 reviews, 583 commits, 383 PRs in 11 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dan's commits primarily focus on enhancements and bug fixes within the Apache Geode codebase, targeting improvements in data storage, data access, and cluster management. Their work involved addressing issues with entry count statistics, adjusting memory allocation and removing some dead code. They also have contributed to the code related to indexes on regions.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
upthewaterspout/geode
May 2015 - Aug 2022
Mirror of Apache Geode (Incubating)
Contributions:4 PRs, 463 pushes, 408 branches in 7 years 3 months
wcsincubatingwfsapachegeofence
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