Toby Smith
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolToby Smith is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Queensland, Australia, with 15 years building and leading teams on Linux and embedded systems, networking, and security. He progressed from hands-on firmware and systems roles at SnapGear/McAfee and Leica Geosystems to senior engineering and management positions at Opengear, and now ships large-scale services at Amazon. Toby pairs deep systems-programming expertise with product-minded leadership, guiding cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, secure infrastructure. A disciplined engineer with an honours engineering degree from the University of Queensland, he also hints at a playful mathematical bent in his GitHub bio, suggesting a curiosity for elegant, principled solutions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons I), Bachelor of Engineering (Hons I) at The University of QueenslandClermont State High School
Stackoverflow
2,079reputation
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8answers
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linux
top-5%
Github Skills (44)
human-readable10
socket10
linux9
readable9
distribute8
software-update8
snap8
tera7
dimensions7
nsstring6
shared-memory6
decimal6
iot6
site-generator6
iphone6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tismith/exitfailure
May 2018 - May 2020
Helpers for easily using failure::Error and others as return types in main() while still giving human-readable error messages.
Contributions:109 commits, 51 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 years
readablehuman-readablehelperserrorstill
tismith/tictactoe-haskell
Mar 2011 - Dec 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 2 years 10 months
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