William Smith
Architect at Akamai Technologies
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Smith is an architect and seasoned software engineer with 11 years building cloud platforms and large-scale Linux-based systems, currently shaping infrastructure at Akamai after Linode's acquisition. He led major platform efforts at Linode—including a hypervisor migration to QEMU/KVM, the design and delivery of Linode API v4, an s3-compatible Object Storage, Bare Metal offerings, and the Linode CLI—demonstrating both systems-level depth and product-driven execution. Comfortable across Python, Go and legacy tooling like Perl, he couples low-level Linux expertise with modern CI/CD and observability stacks (Jenkins, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki). Known for translating business needs into robust architectures, he has repeatedly taken projects from inception through production while mentoring teams. An active contributor to linode/linode-cli, he has expanded CLI capabilities and multi-user object storage integrations that improve operator and customer workflows. Based in New Jersey, he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for refactors that unlock performance and operational simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Game and Simulation Programming, Bachelors, Game and Simulation Programming at DeVry University
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Github Skills (16)
command-line-interface10
api10
python10
apidoc10
command-line10
cli10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
automations9
automation9
infrastructure9
api-rest9
object-storage8
database-management7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
linode/linode-cli
Oct 2016 - Jul 2022
The official Linode command line interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 348 commits, 177 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:William contributed significantly to the command-line interface (CLI) for Linode's infrastructure. Their work focused on enhancing the CLI's capabilities, including adding new resources like StackScripts, Domains, and NodeBalancers. Furthermore, the user implemented features such as creating, updating, and deleting resources, and also integrated functionalities like multi-user support and object storage integration. Their commits demonstrate a focus on expanding the CLI's core features and improving the user experience.
command-line-interfacelinodecloudinfrastructurecommand-line-tool
Dorthu/openapi3
May 2018 - Nov 2022
A Python3 OpenAPI 3 Spec Parser
Contributions:23 reviews, 179 commits, 80 PRs in 4 years 7 months
openapiparserpython
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