Michael Smith
Senior Staff Engineer at Perpetual Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a Senior Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-scale, security-conscious platforms and products, now architecting an AI-native SIEM that keeps data in customers' clouds. He has driven core platform and web performance work at WP Engine powering over a million WordPress sites and previously helped create early network security and testing products at Symantec, Rapid7, and Mu Dynamics. Comfortable across systems, SaaS, and security domains, he combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership to deliver observable, performant, and secure services. Based in Austin, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance product needs with operational realities — a trait honed by shipping both developer-facing tools and large-scale production platforms.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (55)
markdown10
cloudflare10
api10
sdk10
cloudflare-api10
exceptions9
error-reporting9
resque9
rollbar9
go9
mdx9
uncaught-exceptions9
sinatra8
stacktrace8
terraform-provider8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
msmith/prompt
Feb 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:69 commits in 2 years 2 months
msmith/sudoku-scala
Oct 2009 - Jun 2011
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 8 months
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