Fred Smith
SRE Lead at Wanderu
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolFred Smith is an SRE Lead based in Boston with two decades of experience building and operating scalable infrastructure and 12 years in senior engineering roles. He has led SRE/DevOps teams through acquisitions, platform migrations, and the operational scaling of high-traffic products like Untappd and edX, focusing on Kubernetes, AWS, Cloudflare, CI/CD and observability. Known for turning legacy stacks into standardized, secure deployment pipelines, he combines hands-on automation work—Ansible, Jenkins, MongoDB backups and S3 integrations—with people leadership. His open-source contributions to the openedx configuration repo show practical expertise in deployment orchestration and security hardening for large education platforms. A homelab and home automation enthusiast, he brings an experimental, systems-first mindset to production reliability challenges. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a track record of delivering measurable operational improvements across startups and enterprise teams.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (15)
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
ansible10
python9
aws8
security-compliance8
security8
security-policy8
mongodb7
mongodb-database7
http6
lighttpd6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 115 commits, 543 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to infrastructure and configuration management within the repository. Their work included modifying scripts and configurations related to Ansible playbooks, Jenkins builds, and deployment processes. These changes focused on improving automation, such as configuring MongoDB backups, integrating with S3, and enhancing the CI/CD pipeline. Additionally, the user updated security configurations and refined the deployment workflow.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
fredsmith/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 116 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 1 month
dotfilesconfiguration-filesconfigurationconfig
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