James Smith
Senior Bot Engineer at WooliesX
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJames Smith is a Senior Bot Engineer and full‑stack developer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems and modern front-end experiences using React and Node. He has a strong track record improving developer delivery through automation, DevOps uplift and pragmatic release engineering across enterprises and startups, including Optus and IAG. James contributes to prominent open-source observability work—adding Windows host metrics and packaging improvements to the OpenTelemetry Collector—demonstrating deep systems and monitoring expertise. He also founded a health-focused analytics startup and balances technical rigor with creativity as a professional drummer and aspiring blacksmith, a mix that fuels his hands-on, outcome-driven approach.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B. Computer Science, B. Computer Science at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (18)
observability10
data-collection10
windows10
system-monitoring10
go10
opentelemetry10
collections10
devops10
metric10
msp9
msix9
packaging9
package9
powershell5
kubernetes4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 79 commits, 103 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:James's contributions focused on adding and implementing host metrics functionality to the OpenTelemetry Collector, with a specific focus on Windows. They developed scaffolding for the Host Metrics receiver, enabling the collection of CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code and updated dependencies, demonstrating skills in system monitoring and configuration. They also contributed to building an MSI package.
opentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservabilitytelemetry
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 31 commits, 35 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the host metrics receiver within the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository. The commits focused on adding and improving the functionality for various host metrics scrapers, including those for CPU, memory, disk, and network usage. Their work involved implementing the logic to collect and report these metrics, specifically for the Windows operating system, along with the related refactoring and test improvements.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.