Scott Smith
Software Engineer at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Smith is a software engineer based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and observability tooling. Currently at Meta, he focuses on production-grade services and has notable open-source contributions to Magma—enhancing Prometheus exporters, alerting webhooks, and Grafana integrations to improve network monitoring accuracy. His background includes research and sustainability coordination at Yale, reflecting a blend of analytical rigor and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Comfortable across back-end development and DevOps, he brings practical experience turning monitoring signals into actionable, maintainable infrastructure improvements.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Prospective Major: Computer Science, Prospective Major: Computer Science at Yale University
Github Skills (14)
alarmmanager10
go10
prometheus10
metric10
notificationmanager10
dockers9
grafana9
docker9
yaml8
grpc8
cprogramming-language7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
c-language7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
magma/magma
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:101 reviews, 361 commits, 172 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Prometheus exporter within the Magma project. They implemented features to enable flexible use of network labels for metrics pushed to the pushgateway. Additional commits involved parsing network and gateway IDs from cloud metric names and adding support for a webhook receiver for alerts. Further commits were dedicated to managing and updating the alert rules and the Grafana data source, and to improve the accuracy of monitoring.
pythonmobileltevagrant5g
facebookarchive/prometheus-edge-hub
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Prometheus Edge Hub is a replacement of the Prometheus Pushgateway which allows for the pushing of metrics to an endpoint for scraping by prometheus, rather than having Prometheus scrape the metric sources directly.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 9 PRs in 7 months
prometheus-pushgatewayprometheus-exporterscrapeedgepushing
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