David Smith
Oakland, California, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Smith is a platform and DevOps engineer with roughly two years of recent focused experience and a long history (since 1999) of hands-on systems and infrastructure work across banking, government, healthcare, and media. He specialises in Infrastructure as Code, cloud-native platforms, CI/CD and SRE practices using Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, Python and Git-based toolchains, and is comfortable leading green- and brownfield projects. His background spans enterprise production operations, on-call reliability, automation (Puppet/Chef) and developer-facing release workflows, informed by roles at CGI, TalkTalk and Lloyds Pharmacy Online Doctor. David pairs technical delivery with mentoring and documentation skills, helping teams choose stacks and onboard junior engineers. He also has an uncommon academic foundation—a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science—which surfaces in his problem-solving, critical thinking and clear technical writing. Based in Oakland with a playful GitHub tagline “one YAML potion at a time!”, he blends pragmatic engineering with intellectual curiosity.
2 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD History and Philosophy of Science, PhD History and Philosophy of Science at University of BathBSc Hons Sociology Social Sciences and the Humanities, BSc Hons Sociology Social Sciences and the Humanities at Brunel University of LondonRegisted General Nurse Nursing anatomy and physiology medical sciences, Registed General Nurse Nursing anatomy and physiology medical sciences at South Lothian College of Nursing and MidwiferyMA Philosophy and research methods, MA Philosophy and research methods at Goldsmiths, University of London
English
Github Skills (3)
copilot10
sidekick10
llm9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
openchatai/OpenChat
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
LLMs custom-chatbots console ⚡
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 days
openchatai/copilot
Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:19 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
ai-copilotcopilotllmsidekick
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