Travis Smith
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Dublin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Smith is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems and developer tooling, now based in Dublin, Ohio and currently at Shopify. He previously led architecture and content-discovery for Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, designing systems that touched 80 services and served live audiences of millions for events like Thursday Night Football. A polyglot builder comfortable across .NET, cloud, mobile, and data visualization, he has a track record of reducing system overhead (e.g., cutting messaging traffic by 70%) and introducing pragmatic architectural standards. He blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentoring, producing vision and strategy documents and negotiating cross-team design tradeoffs. His background ranges from founding product delivery at startups to developer evangelism at Atlassian, where he drove documentation pipelines and tooling to lower friction for teams. Notably, he pairs deep systems thinking with a user-facing sensibility—crafting backend platforms that enable compelling customer experiences.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computational Physics, BS Computational Physics at The University of ToledoMasters Information Systems Management, Masters Information Systems Management at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (105)
nuget10
visual-studio-code-extension10
messaging10
windows10
message-queue10
masstransit10
visual-studio10
microservices10
hosting10
dotnet10
editor10
rabbitmq10
windows-forms10
msmq10
azure-service-bus10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TravisTheTechie/vscode-write-good
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Write Good Linter for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:30 commits, 5 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 3 months
lintervisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionpylint
Topshelf/topshelf.github.io
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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