Gregory Smith
Senior Software Engineer 2 at Nordstrom
Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and testing scalable web and cloud systems, currently driving serverless and Kubernetes adoption at Nordstrom. He architects CI/CD pipelines, standard Docker images, and secure deployment patterns while mentoring engineers in AWS, GitLab, Terraform and K8s best practices. His background spans deep C#/.NET expertise since 2000, embedded C++ and medical-device test automation, to modern Node.js and React front-ends, giving him a rare full-stack+QA perspective. Gregory has improved open-source testing for the widely used Serverless Framework—adding Windows and YAML event tests that increased reliability for AWS Lambda users. He’s known for turning complex requirements into repeatable build-and-deploy patterns and for pairing pragmatic engineering with strong documentation and automation. Based in Oklahoma, he’s passionate about learning new server technologies and shaping company-wide standards that accelerate team delivery.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Front Range Community College
Github Skills (7)
testing10
serverless10
javascript10
yaml9
aws8
aws-lambda5
cicd4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Gregory focused on improving the testing infrastructure for the Serverless Framework. Their contributions include adding tests to verify that YAML can be used for event input within the AWS Invoke plugin, adding and correcting tests related to handling of Windows systems. This also includes ensuring accurate parsing of input data, enhancing the reliability and coverage of tests within the project. Further, they improved tests related to Windows compatibility.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
Nordstrom/hello-retail-workshop
Feb 2017 - Oct 2020
A workshop to accompany the 100% serverless, event-sourced "Hello, Retail!" code base.
Contributions:31 PRs, 40 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 8 months
event-sourcedworkshopserverlessaws-lambdaoms
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