Ricky Smith
Staff Software Engineer at Splunk
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorRicky Smith is a Staff Software Engineer at Splunk with over a decade of experience building cloud infrastructure and resilient application backends. He combines deep legacy-stack knowledge (Classic ASP, VB.NET, C#) with modern infrastructure tooling like Terragrunt, enabling smooth migrations and scalable deployments. Ricky’s career blends hands-on engineering, consulting, and startup leadership—he founded the Twitterizer .NET library and has a track record of refactoring and productionizing open-source code for NuGet distribution. Based in Atlanta, he’s known for pragmatic solutions that preserve data integrity (e.g., fixing JSON and encoding issues in third-party libraries) while driving platform-level improvements. Colleagues rely on him for bridging application developers and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, maintainable systems at scale.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
net10
asp-net10
json10
dotnet10
twitter10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
apidoc9
refactoring9
api9
nuget8
twitter-oauth6
entity6
oauth6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Twitterizer/Twitterizer
Feb 2012 - Nov 2014
Twitterizer is a .NET class library that provides an easy-to-use interface for the Twitter web api. It is written for developers. It's features are easy to discover and follow a consistent design pattern.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ricky primarily focused on refactoring and updating the Twitterizer library. Key contributions include removing legacy NuGet targets, fixing JSON parsing errors, and restructuring the library for the Client profile. They also addressed character encoding issues for POST requests and added missing properties to geo place objects, ensuring data integrity. Additionally, the user updated the project for a NuGet package release.
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FuelRats/fuelrats-mirc
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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