Sean Smith
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Smith is a pragmatic Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building developer tooling, release automation, and internal build systems for large media and enterprise environments. Currently on Warner Bros. Discovery’s release and delivery engineering team in Seattle, he focuses on automating repository and environment promotion workflows and embedding security defaults into source control at scale. Prior roles at F5 and CA Technologies honed his DevOps and cloud automation skills across AWS, Azure, and GCE, while early hands-on experience running a PC service operation gives him a strong operations-minded perspective. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Terraform’s GitHub provider and contributed full‑stack fixes to the community 3D‑printing platform Obico, reflecting a willingness to tackle both backend integrations and frontend accessibility. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex release requirements into repeatable, auditable automation that reduces friction for engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at University of Rhode Island
English
Github Skills (26)
github-ci10
back-end-development10
django10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
go10
github-api10
html10
backend10
githubaction-workflow10
python9
apidoc9
css9
api9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
integrations/terraform-provider-github
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Terraform GitHub provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sean made several contributions to the Terraform GitHub provider. They added a new state attribute for invite management and integrated new branch protection options. The user also fixed a bug related to autolink reference handling and added a resource for managing repository action access levels. Additionally, they addressed visibility issues in the organization secrets data source.
terraformterraform-provider
TheSpaghettiDetective/obico-server
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Obico is a community-built, open-source smart 3D printing platform used by makers, enthusiasts, and tinkerers around the world.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 11 PRs, 34 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sean contributed to various aspects of the Obico-server project, including implementing features such as password changes for non-social accounts. They worked on both the frontend, modifying HTML templates for UI changes, and the backend, adding password change functionality. Additionally, the user improved the project's accessibility and performance based on lighthouse audit findings, making improvements to the codebase and integrating JS from Zencdn.
3d-printing
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