Gemini Smith

Software Engineer

Gametime

Sep 2023 - Sep 2025 (2 years 1 month)

• Reduced duplicate ingestion processing time by ~30% by proposing and driving a hackathon-originated improvement to FTP ingestion workflows, securing cross-functional buy-in (DevOps, Data, Engineering) and improving listing accuracy and reducing cost of goods sold • Built a Google Sheets-based ingestion service to normalize and map inconsistent external event data into internal systems, defining business rules and handling edge cases, enabling the sole ingestion path for Ticketmaster spring training events • Designed and scaled high-throughput ingestion pipelines integrating ticket data from multiple external suppliers into a unified marketplace • Built services for data normalization and matching to support real-time availabilit

Software Engineer

Syndio

Nov 2021 - May 2023 (1 year 7 months)

• Designed and deployed scalable microservice APIs on Kubernetes (GCP) supporting user management, authorization, and resource control for enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 organizations with complex authorization and access control requirements • Introduced composable IAM roles, reducing engineering overhead and enabling faster feature delivery without repeated backend changes. • Built and maintained PostgreSQL-backed services, translating complex business requirements into scalable and extensible system designs • Mentored engineers on Go development and code quality, improving team consistency and engineering standards

DevOps Engineer

Freshly

Dec 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year)

• Built a monitoring and failover system that dynamically rerouted Istio traffic based on provider availability, ensuring uptime for a primary revenue stream (~$430M annually) • Played a key role in migrating a 1.27B+ row production PostgreSQL database from Heroku to GCP, coordinating across infrastructure and application layers to ensure zero downtime and preserve data integrity • Maintained and extended internal Go-based tooling to streamline Kubernetes deployments, rollbacks, and environment configuration

Software Engineer (Test & Automation)

Freshly

Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 5 months)

• Selected for the role based on demonstrated expertise in test automation, including leadership of a regional testing community and public speaking • Built and scaled a CI/CD-integrated automated testing platform using Cypress, increasing release confidence and reducing production risk • Reduced test execution time and improved developer workflow by leading migration from Semaphore to CircleCI • Established testing best practices and mentored engineers on automation strategy, improving code quality and team ownership of testing

Software Engineer / SDET

Brightcove

Nov 2016 - Aug 2019 (2 years 10 months)

• Built an internal video ad server (Go, AWS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, VAST, SmartXML) initially for automated testing; later adopted for sales demos and conference use, remaining in use 6+ years after initial development • Built backend services and contributed to CI/CD and test automation improvements, increasing system reliability and release confidence

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