Daniel Smith
Senior Backend Engineer - AI LLM at Genies
California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Smith is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI/LLM services for gaming and web platforms. He combines deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi, cloud CI/CD, and observability with hands-on backend development in Go, Python, and TypeScript to ship reliable, scalable systems. His career spans major roles at Epic Games, Scopely, Webflow, and now Genies, reflecting a strong focus on platform reliability and developer experience. An early tinkerer who ran private game servers in high school, he brings a gamer’s pragmatism to solving complex networking and performance challenges. Outside engineering he’s pushed into business development and leadership, guided by a disciplined growth mindset informed by a diverse set of mentors.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
General Education Graphic Design Web Design Software Engineering Computer Production Accounting, General Education Graphic Design Web Design Software Engineering Computer Production Accounting at Saddleback College
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Github Skills (70)
cms10
reverse-proxy10
web-application10
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javascript10
letsencrypt10
angular-module10
golang10
ghost10
jamstack10
nodejs10
load-balancer10
audience10
docker10
headless-cms10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danmasta/interpolate
Mar 2019 - Nov 2024
Simple template string interpolation for strings and files
Contributions:15 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
simple-templatestringstringsstring-interpolationinterpolation
danmasta/mocha-sonar
Mar 2019 - Mar 2024
SonarQube XML reporter for Mocha
Contributions:15 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
mochareporterxmlsonarqube
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