Jim Smith
Staff Engineer at ThreeFlow
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJim Smith is a Staff Engineer based in Michigan with 13 years of experience building Ruby-centric, JavaScript-heavy web applications and cloud-native deployments. He has progressed from hands-on Rails development and CTO-level product work to leading backend teams and serving as interim engineering manager at ThreeFlow, blending architecture, deployment automation, and cross-browser front-end expertise. Jim specializes in selecting pragmatic technologies, designing deployment processes and server architectures, and shipping social and data-migration projects—skills honed migrating legacy .NET and SQL Server systems to Rails and MySQL. Comfortable both as a technical leader and an individual contributor, he pairs deep operational know-how with UX-aware development training. Those who work with him find a practical engineer who focuses on durable, maintainable systems rather than chasing hype.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Graphics Technology, Bachelor of Science, Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue UniversityUser Design Experience, User Design Experience at coLearning Professional Education
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Github Skills (58)
recipe9
fetch9
mruby9
insertion8
data-loading8
pad8
ember-data8
cookbook8
regeneration8
javascript7
signature7
rxjs7
cloud-platform7
typescript7
solidus7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WatchTowerBenefits/opsworks_ruby
Jan 2018 - Jul 2022
Set of chef recipes for OpsWorks based Ruby projects.
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 6 months
recipeschef-recipesrubyopsworkschef
solidusio-contrib/solidus_searchkick
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Searchkick for Solidus
Contributions:34 commits in 7 months
solidussearchkick
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