George Smith
Project Lead at incognito project
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Smith is a Project Lead and seasoned software engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and shipping robust, cloud-native systems using Java and Go. He excels at translating complex technical architectures for non-technical stakeholders, mentoring teams, and producing maintainable, secure code—evidenced by substantive refactors and security improvements to the widely used CloudFoundry UAA project. His background spans enterprise and high-scale consumer environments, including roles at AWS, Google, Disney, and Sinclair, where he led microservices design and real-time analytics efforts. Known for perseverance and pragmatic system design, he often pairs hands-on development with operational enhancements like dynamic rate limiting and search performance tuning. Based in Woodinville, Washington, he blends deep technical craft with strong communication to drive projects from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at San Diego State University
Github Skills (10)
security10
javas10
rate-limiting10
oauth10
java10
openid-connect10
testing9
spring-boot9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/uaa
May 2022 - Jul 2022
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on refactoring the UAA server code to improve security and maintainability. This involved removing sensitive data (passwords) from several classes by changing variable types and implementing alternative methods. They also worked on rate limiting features by dynamically updating the configurations and fixing associated bugs. Furthermore, the user made updates to the documentation, and improved the performance of the internal search functionality.
openid-connectuaaoidcaccountauthentication
litesoft/LiteSoftJavaAnnotations
Apr 2018 - Nov 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
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