Phillip Smith
Site Reliability Engineer at Expensify
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Smith is a Melbourne-based Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years’ hands-on experience building and maintaining resilient infrastructure and open-source-backed solutions. He leverages deep systems, networking and security skills honed across roles from IT manager to SOC analyst, and currently focuses on reliability at Expensify where he contributes to core distributed database work such as Bedrock. Practical and pragmatic, Phillip pairs command-line fluency and firewall expertise with a history of improving database indexing and background job subsystems to boost operational stability. Unusually, he pairs his technical career with qualifications as a firefighter and a licensed private pilot, reflecting a calm, disciplined approach to high-pressure incidents.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of IT (Networking), System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager, Diploma of IT (Networking), System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager at Holmesglen TAFE
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Github Skills (10)
sqlite10
indexing10
database-design10
database-optimization10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
refactoring8
algorithm6
linux6
bash6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:35 releases, 21 reviews, 20 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to the `bedrock` database project by modifying and refactoring core database functionality. Their commits focused on optimizing database operations, specifically by improving indexing strategies and removing unnecessary or outdated code elements. They also streamlined the codebase by removing extraneous whitespace and comments. The work directly involved enhancing the `Jobs` plugin, suggesting they were involved in improving task management or background processing features.
rockdistributed-databasedatabasefailoverreplication
fukawi2/pgsql-backup
Mar 2011 - Sep 2019
Contributions:73 commits, 9 pushes, 2 comments in 8 years 6 months
postgresql-backuppostgresbackup-scriptpostgresqlbackup
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