Eric Smith
Group Manager, GTM Engineering & Ops at Tailscale
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Smith is a pragmatic engineering leader and full-stack builder with nine years of formal experience who combines hands-on coding with servant leadership to grow teams and revenue. He has a track record of building orgs from scratch and delivering high-impact platform work—migrating legacy monoliths to distributed architectures, launching AI integrations and observability products, and improving Core Web Vitals by over 95%. Equally comfortable recruiting and mentoring engineers as he is shipping code, Eric operates as a player/coach who codifies best practices, drives product-facing experiments, and champions clear communication and trust. Now leading GTM Engineering & Ops at Tailscale after shaping Growth and Developer Experience at Grafana and DigitalOcean, he brings a builder-first mindset and a knack for turning infrastructure and data into measurable customer growth.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Penn State University
English
Github Skills (42)
monitoring10
drupal10
gzip10
observability10
ssl10
dashboard10
rate-limiting10
postgresql10
nginx-conf10
php-fpm10
mysql10
letsencrypt10
wordpress10
cdn10
digitalocean10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
flyf-sh/supabase
Mar 2023 - Aug 2025
The open source Firebase alternative. Follow to stay updated about our public Beta.
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
consteric/sharkweek-stream
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
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