Don Smith
Principal System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Smith is a Principal System Software Engineer with 15 years designing and operating streaming data pipelines, very large databases, and distributed systems across both startup and enterprise environments. Based in Denver, he’s held senior platform and distributed systems roles at NVIDIA, Twitch, Verizon, Comcast, and others, translating business needs into scalable, production-grade architectures. He excels at bridging low-level systems work with product-focused delivery, particularly where high-throughput, low-latency data and storage meet operational constraints. His Engineering Physics background from Colorado School of Mines gives him a strong analytical approach to performance and reliability tradeoffs. Colleagues rely on him to tame complexity—whether optimizing dataflows at scale or mentoring engineers on observability and system design. Outside of work he brings the curiosity of a physicist to software problems, often favoring elegant, measurable solutions over quick fixes.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Physics, Engineering Physics at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (85)
databases10
maven10
sbt10
java10
gradle10
robot10
irc-bot9
sql-query9
sql9
database9
mill9
weechat9
azure-repos9
indexing9
sasl9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cactauz/gobot
May 2018 - Jul 2022
discord bot in go
Contributions:49 commits, 6 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 2 months
golangdiscorddiscordgobotdiscord-bot
cactauz/settings
Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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