Ian Smith
Senior Engineer at GitHub
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Smith is a Senior Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable, scalable systems across startups and observability-focused teams, currently at GitHub after a multi-role tenure at honeycomb.io. He combines deep engineering practice—site reliability, software development, and people management—with a background in linguistics and a BS in Computer Science from MIT, which gives him a rare cross-disciplinary lens on systems and user-facing tooling. Based in Oakland, he’s contributed to production-grade services at companies from Lookout to PlanGrid and led teams through operational and architectural challenges at Honeycomb. An avid webmaster and aspiring game developer, he maintains an active GitHub presence and brings a curiosity-driven approach to tooling and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who pairs pragmatic shipping with thoughtful design, often surfacing subtle user needs informed by his linguistics training.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Engineering, BS Computer Science Engineering at MITMA Linguistics, MA Linguistics at Gallaudet University
Sign languages, English
Github Skills (32)
minecraft7
midi7
juce-application7
bukkit7
audio-applications7
paper-plugin6
fabric6
juce6
audiounit6
forge6
spigot6
plugin6
audio-effect5
actions-on-google5
clap5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IanSmith1337/Trendiver
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:76 commits, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
IanSmith1337/Curbd
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 354 pushes, 9 tags in 1 year 5 months
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