Shane Smith
Senior System Engineer at Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology
Rockland, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShane Smith is a Senior System Engineer with 16 years building resilient web and systems software, currently at Clio after leading production engineering at Shopify. He combines backend and DevOps expertise with deep systems-level work—contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Podman and Neovim show his skill in container/VM lifecycle, virtualization, and low-level memory-safe refactors. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and operational reliability, he has a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes that reduce concurrency bugs and improve maintainability. Based in Rockland, Ontario, he stays current with web technologies while bringing a practitioner’s attention to edge cases and interrupt-safe behavior that often go unnoticed until failure.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at Carleton University
English, French
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Github Skills (30)
asynchronous10
container10
docker10
system-programming10
qemu10
async10
vimscript10
plugin-development10
linux10
c1110
dockers10
c1710
vim10
neovim10
regular-expression10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dyng/ctrlsf.vim
Feb 2017 - Nov 2020
A text searching plugin mimics Ctrl-Shift-F on Sublime Text 2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Shane contributed to the `ctrlsf.vim` plugin, a text searching tool for Vim. Their work focused on enhancing the plugin's functionality by fixing bugs, such as issues with the next/previous mappings, and adding features like the ability to search patterns starting with a dash and including hidden files. The user also improved the user experience by indicating "Nothing found!" in compact mode and addressed an issue with the async timer.
mimicsshiftvimvim-plugintodoist
containers/podman
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shane primarily focused on improving the `podman` machine functionality, addressing issues related to starting, stopping, and interrupting the virtual machine. Their contributions include implementing a "Starting" status for machines, preventing simultaneous starts, and ensuring proper handling of interrupts during the start process. Furthermore, the user added features for the qemu VM, such as waiting for the VM to exit on stop and adding a PID file. The user's work demonstrates a strong understanding of container management, virtualization, and system-level programming within the Podman ecosystem.
containersrunclinuxpodmandocker
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