Stephen Smithwick
Senior Production Engineer at Snowflake
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Smithwick is a senior production engineer in Colorado Springs with over two decades of software experience and 14 years in senior engineering roles building large-scale, resilient systems. He has led teams and technical decisions at Snowflake and Amazon, helping operate index and storage systems that manage hundreds of trillions of entries with extremely high durability. Previously he established and scaled platform and notification products at Qantas, guiding agile transformations and end-to-end ownership from design to operations. Comfortable both leading strategy and rolling up his sleeves, he blends strong distributed-systems expertise with pragmatic delivery practices like CI/CD, TDD, and Kanban. His background in computer science and linguistics hints at a methodical, systems-oriented thinker who values clear communication alongside operational excellence.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science Major and a Linguistics Minor, BS, Computer Science Major and a Linguistics Minor at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (14)
text-editor8
amazon7
aws5
rust-lang5
machine-learning4
amazon-eks4
sagemaker4
kubernetes3
xgboost3
causal2
kubeflow2
windows1
macos1
java1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DiUS/rhok-sydney
May 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 6 months
StephenSmithwick/easter
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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