Steve Smith
Senior Software Engineer at 21CS
Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ohio with over a decade of experience modernizing enterprise systems and architecting robust solutions across mainframe z/OS and contemporary .NET stacks. He brings deep systems-programming expertise in IBM z/OS assembler, MVS internals, and networking products (TCP/IP, VTAM, NetView), combined with practical full-stack work migrating legacy ASP.NET apps to .NET Core, Blazor, and cloud-friendly architectures. At Rocket Software, Fifth Third Bank and other firms he has blended low-level systems reliability with higher-level web and service design, often improving efficiency and maintainability. An active open-source contributor, he has meaningful commits across prominent .NET projects (ASP.NET Core docs, eShop templates, Ardalis libraries) that show both code and documentation discipline. He founded NimblePros and pairs entrepreneurial initiative with hands-on coding, from guard-clause libraries to Clean Architecture templates. Notably, his career spans both decades-old mainframe mastery and modern cloud/container modernization work, a rare bridge between legacy infrastructure and contemporary development.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Texas A&M University
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Github contributions (5)
ardalis/pluralsight-ddd-fundamentals
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Sample code for the Pluralsight DDD Fundamentals course by Julie Lerman and Steve "ardalis" Smith
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 232 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the development of the "SharedKernel" project, introducing a ValueObject and other shared kernel components to the DDD Fundamentals Pluralsight course project. They added code for DateTimeRange and focused on developing the schedule related features. The user then incorporated these additions to the FrontDesk project. The user also updated the project file with more package information and refactored code for the project's front end.
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dotnet-architecture/eShopOnWeb
Mar 2017 - Dec 2021
Sample ASP.NET Core 8.0 reference application, now community supported: https://github.com/NimblePros/eShopOnWeb
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 190 commits, 310 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve's contributions primarily revolve around the development of the eShopOnWeb application. They added initial project and solution files, then moved entity models to the business project. They also refactored code to use a common base entity class and made changes to the user interface. Furthermore, they are working on adding features that will integrate both authentication and cart support.
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