Tel Smith
Staff Engineer, Architecture at Slickdeals
Akron, Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorTel Smith is a seasoned Staff Engineer in Architecture with 13 years of experience building and hardening web platforms, currently shaping architecture at Slickdeals from Akron, Ohio. He brings deep full-stack experience across PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and Apache on Linux, plus legacy and niche skills like VisualBasic, RealBasic, VBScript and winsock/network protocol work that help when systems need low-level debugging. Over a decade at Slickdeals he progressed from web developer to staff-level architect, blending hands-on coding with system design and operational reliability. He has a track record of modernizing back ends, building affiliate and alerting frameworks for broadcast clients, and managing server infrastructure under production constraints. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he pairs old-school protocol knowledge with contemporary web engineering to keep high-traffic services resilient.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
parser6
annotations5
cookbook1
tarantool1
zookeeper1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
74656c/fart.js
Jun 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
74656c/annotations
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Annotations Docblock Parser
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
annotationsdocblockparser
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