James Smith
Principal Engineer at Commonwealth Bank
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Smith is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with 14 years of experience delivering infrastructure, device management, and automation solutions across financial services, startups, and IT. He combines deep expertise in CI/CD (Codefresh, GitHub Actions), IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless), multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and macOS enterprise management (Jamf Pro Certified Expert) to streamline large-scale desktop and cloud operations. At Commonwealth Bank he progressed from Staff Engineer to Principal, previously shaping enterprise mobility at ANZ and IT tooling at Culture Amp. Comfortable scripting in Python, Bash and ZSH and working across macOS, Unix, Docker and Windows, he also brings practical identity and patch-management experience (Okta, Azure AD, Active Directory, autopkg). Beyond engineering, he contributes audio engineering to the Mac Admins Podcast, highlighting a knack for technical communication and community engagement.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Camberwell Boys Grammar SchoolBA, Media, Psychology, Visual Arts, BA, Media, Psychology, Visual Arts at Australian Catholic University
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Github Skills (136)
dep10
python10
automation10
ntlm-authentication10
macos10
packaging10
go-api9
bash9
menu9
command-line-tool9
sha9
compliance9
mdm9
zsh9
in-place8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
smithjw/macos_security
Sep 2021 - Jun 2026
macOS Security Compliance Project
Contributions:11 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 10 months
securitysecurity-compliancemacos-securitycompliancemacos
smithjw/camper_splash
Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:59 commits, 4 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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