Erich Smith
Staff Security Engineer at Pomelo Care
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolErich Smith is a Staff Security Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building DevSecOps and cloud security programs across startups and mid-market companies, currently based in Durham, NC. He combines developer-first sensibilities with deep operational expertise—coding in Go, NodeJS, POSIX shell and contributing to community projects like the popular Bash-it framework—to make security practical and usable for engineers. Erich has led security automation, compliance, and incident operations at companies including JupiterOne, Vimeo, and LifeOmic, consistently shifting security left through policy, controls, and relentless automation. Known for clear technical writing and cross-functional leadership, he designs controls that meet regulatory needs without killing developer velocity. Practical, detail-oriented, and an active learner, he also brings a systems-level background from early roles at IBM through infrastructure and embedded systems work. Off the beaten path, he’s a security enthusiast who still enjoys improving daily developer workflows through small but impactful shell tooling contributions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical & Computer Engineering, BS Electrical & Computer Engineering at Valparaiso University
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Github Skills (14)
sh10
bash10
script10
shell10
alias10
scripting10
bash-configuration9
bash-completion9
bash-shell8
prompt8
command-prompt8
terminal-application7
utility7
terminal-emulator7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Bash-it/bash-it
Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Erich primarily contributed to the `bash-it/bash-it` framework by adding and modifying Bash functions. Their work involved importing and implementing composure functions, which aim to simplify shell programming. They added metadata and examples to the base plugin and implemented a more portable `pass` function. The user also integrated the `fasd` plugin, enhancing directory navigation and file selection capabilities.
bashshellterminalthemesproductivity
JupiterOne-Archives/whitehat-client
May 2019 - Apr 2022
Whitehat REST API client
Contributions:6 PRs, 2 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
restrest-api
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