Richard Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Location Based Holdings
Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years building high-performance, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures from the ground up. Based in Arizona, he specializes in scalability and performance—rewriting IoT TCP listeners to cut CPU from 100% to under 1% and achieving 25k req/sec with Netty vs ~2.3k on Tomcat. He combines hands-on backend work (Spring Boot, MySQL, Mongo, Redis), modern deployment tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Fluentd/ELK) and responsive front-end design with Angular and Material. Richard has a long consulting track record helping enterprises design automated CI/CD, load-testing and devops practices across AWS and on-prem environments. A clear communicator and lifelong learner, he also authors white papers and speaks publicly, bringing both technical depth and client-facing leadership to complex projects.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
ims9
branches9
cgit9
slack7
java6
ubuntu3
docker-image3
jsp3
linux2
maven-plugin2
docker2
optimization2
nginx2
maven2
reactive-forms1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pilbender/qtiworks
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
java-developmentims-qtiqtiextensionsims
pilbender/docker-mongo-cluster
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
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