Joel Smith
Principal Engineer DevOps at Verato
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Smith is a Principal Engineer DevOps based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building and operating web platforms and automation at scale. He has deep hands-on expertise across Ruby, JavaScript, Python, web APIs, and server automation, and has led large configuration management and CI/container initiatives that migrated legacy images to S3 and established autoscaling, caching, and microservice deployment frameworks. At Moxi Works he streamlined deploy processes and maintained a substantial Chef codebase; at Verato he now focuses on architecting reliable, production-grade infrastructure. His background includes early CTO and freelance web development roles, giving him product-minded instincts and a pragmatic approach to solving operational complexity. Known for quickly turning ad-hoc fixes into repeatable automation, he blends developer fluency with site-reliability discipline to keep services resilient as they grow.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dev Accelerator Graduate, Ruby on Rails, Dev Accelerator Graduate, Ruby on Rails at Code Fellows
Github Skills (43)
recipe9
blockchain-platform9
ubuntu9
eosio9
vscode9
nginx8
smart-contracts8
debian8
vault8
blockchain8
contract8
jdownloader8
solidity8
cookbook8
bitbake8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jbsmith86/dev-random-passwords
Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years
BadBinary/OkCupid
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 3 days
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