Pony Smith
Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian
Richmond, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPony Smith is a senior engineering manager with over 12 years of experience leading full-stack teams and delivering large-scale web and data products across enterprise and consumer domains. Currently at Atlassian, Pony has a track record of building teams from scratch, shipping new products rapidly (including a Content Intelligence product in under six months) and orchestrating cross-continental stakeholder collaboration. They blend hands-on technical experience—from CMS and front-end performance work to data lakes, ETL, and Kubernetes deployments—with a people-first management style focused on mentorship, career growth, and team health. Notable accomplishments include driving a 1000% performance uplift during a legacy-to-modern migration and architecting an ingestion pipeline handling tens of millions of objects weekly. Pony pairs a deep engineering craft with strong process instincts: gather clear requirements, deliver quickly, iterate, and bake accessibility and internationalization into platform work. Based in Richmond, CA, they bring a rare combination of creative writing training and technical leadership that helps translate complex requirements into clear, customer-focused solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Creative Writing, MFA Creative Writing at San Francisco State UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts - BA English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Wyoming
English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (32)
python10
ansible10
devops9
automation9
ssh9
infrastructure-as-code8
network-configuration7
lazy-js5
mixins5
javascript4
loader4
apt4
image3
controller3
uml3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ponysmith/tabletrim
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
javascript-utilitycollapsingjavascriptcolumnsselectable
ponysmith/updown
Jan 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 8 months
javascripteventspublishingbreakpoint
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