Jeffrey Smith
Engineering Manager at InfluxData
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Smith is an engineering manager based in Virginia with 8 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems for distributed platforms and blockchains. He progressed from software engineer roles at Block.one and Torc Robotics to senior engineer and now manager at InfluxData, bringing deep domain knowledge in data storage, replication, task management, and smart-contract toolchains. His open-source contributions include meaningful backend improvements to EOSIO projects and InfluxDB—adding Node.js compatibility fixes, robust asset handling, and replication/telemetry enhancements—demonstrating both attention to interoperability and operational telemetry. Jeffrey blends code-level problem solving (Python tooling and core library fixes) with team leadership, shipping practical fixes that reduce friction for downstream developers. Collected experience on high-throughput systems and smart-contract toolkits gives him a rare cross-section of real-time datastore and blockchain expertise. He holds a BE in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and favors pragmatic fixes that improve compatibility and observability across complex codebases.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (30)
authorizations10
javascript10
c-language10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
testing10
data-serialization10
rust-wasm10
wasm-pack10
serialization10
data-storage10
go10
api10
database-design10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
EOSIO/eosio.cdt
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
EOSIO.CDT (Contract Development Toolkit) is a suite of tools used to build EOSIO contracts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 417 commits, 126 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily worked on improving the EOSIO.CDT, a toolkit for building EOSIO contracts, by addressing issues related to asset printing and handling. They implemented features for correctly printing negative fractional assets and updated related tests. Furthermore, the user also addressed build issues in the project and included a missing header file.
ethereumcdtcontractsolidityeosio-contracts
EOSIO/eosjs
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
General purpose library for the EOSIO blockchain.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 48 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey's contributions focused on enhancing the `eosjs` library, specifically by adding compatibility features. They integrated optional `TextEncoder` and `TextDecoder` to improve Node.js compatibility within the API and serialization components. The user also addressed code quality by integrating standard linting rules, fixing existing errors, and providing updates to core functionalities.
blockchainpurposeeosioeosio-blockchaineos
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