Justin Smith
Forward Deployed Engineer at Origin
Starkville, Mississippi, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Smith is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 9 years of experience building cloud-native, real-time data platforms and scalable ETL systems. He has driven architecture and implementation across the full stack—from Kafka-based streaming and TimescaleDB time-series modeling to Python connectors and CI/CD pipelines—delivering production analytics for global industrial fleets. At Camgian he optimized storage and throughput (cutting time-series storage by ~70%) and automated high-volume data workflows; at Estuary he focused on no-code data pipelines, API security, and connector efficiency. Now at Origin, he continues to bridge customer-facing deployment with deep systems engineering. Based in Starkville, MS, he pairs hands-on coding with operational testing and tooling (custom Gradle/Avro tasks, K6 load testing) to reduce errors and speed delivery. His background combines formal software engineering education with practical experience scaling systems for enterprise reliability.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Itawamba Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Senior-Project-CSE-3213/sp_flutter_app
Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
iOS/Android app built with Flutter using MVVM architecture
Contributions:8 PRs, 26 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 9 months
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JustinASmith/justinsmith.sh
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 23 PRs, 32 pushes in 10 months
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