Michael Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Fanatics
Oakton, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems and leading teams to deliver high-impact features. He combines deep infrastructure and backend expertise—Kubernetes, AKS/EKS, Golang, Scala, Kotlin, and observability with Prometheus/New Relic—with hands-on delivery across fintech, healthcare, and security-focused products. As a technical lead he has driven cross-functional projects like multi-tenant eCTD content services and optimized job scheduling at massive scale (from tens of thousands to millions of jobs/month). He contributes to open-source tooling that simplifies Kubernetes controllers (metacontroller), adding leader election, Prometheus metrics, and pprof support to improve reliability and diagnosability. Based in Oakton, VA, Michael favors collaborative, down-to-earth teams and brings a practical focus on secure, observable deployments and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Towson University
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
docker10
prometheus10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
leader-election9
helm9
go9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
metacontroller/metacontroller
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Writing kubernetes controllers can be simple
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:57 reviews, 34 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael focused on improving the deployment and operational aspects of the metacontroller project. Their contributions included implementing a K8s API communication check during startup for service mesh compatibility. They added leader election functionality, enhanced the helm chart, and integrated Prometheus monitoring, indicating a strong emphasis on infrastructure, monitoring, and reliable deployments. Furthermore, they added support for pprof profiling to enable performance analysis.
controllercontrollersdeclarativemetacontrollerkubernetes
mikesmithgh/git-prompt-string
Sep 2017 - Dec 2024
📍A shell agnostic git prompt written in Go
Contributions:22 releases, 78 PRs, 288 pushes in 7 years 4 months
bash-promptbashpromptshellzsh
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