Garret Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox
Folsom, California, United States
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Top SchoolGarret Smith is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building and architecting production systems across startups and large companies, currently at Dropbox after six years at Dropbox Sign. He is a polyglot developer and hands-on architect who prefers small, tightly aligned engineering teams that deeply understand customers and the business. His background spans cloud SaaS platforms, DCIM and industrial control systems, and high-volume data processing, with practical experience in Erlang, Java, Python and systems-level C/C++. Garret is also an experienced speaker on Erlang and has led field research to turn control models into production software. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex domain requirements into pragmatic architectures while still contributing code and shipping features. Based in Folsom, California, he balances technical leadership with a mindset shaped by product ownership and life as a father.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at California State University, ChicoAssociate of Science Mathematics, Associate of Science Mathematics at American River College
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (33)
sane10
compile10
unify9
factor9
leader9
erlang8
gleam8
beam7
otp7
scalable7
elixir7
deadlock6
functional-programming6
locker6
programming-language6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
garret-smith/aeon
May 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years 4 months
translatorerlangnotation
garret-smith/gen_leader_revival
Jan 2011 - Jul 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
implementationserlangleadererlang-libraryunify
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