Michael Proctor-smith
Senior DevOps Engineer at MediaPlatform
Monrovia, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Proctor-smith is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building highly scalable, available web platforms and automating complex infrastructure. He combines deep hands-on skills across Ruby, Java, Linux ops and cloud tooling with proven production experience using Chef, AWS, Jenkins, Elasticsearch and log aggregation for high-traffic video and ad platforms. At Machinima he architected cross-platform identity and auth integrations (Xbox, Facebook, mobile) and transitioned services to autoscaling AMI/Chef deployments, demonstrating both application and systems expertise. He’s comfortable spanning the stack—from writing deployment pipelines and custom auth systems to tuning MySQL, Varnish and HAProxy for performance. Based in Monrovia, CA, he favors pragmatic solutions to thorny scaling problems and has a history of turning manual processes into reliable, automated workflows. An engineer who started in small startup teams, he brings product-minded judgement alongside deep operational craft.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (8)
3d-printer4
docker3
hdmi2
scale2
gcode2
debian1
command-line-tool1
drupal1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
socallinuxexpo/ytschedule
Jan 2016 - Mar 2026
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 3 months
mproctor13/randomSCAD
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:35 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
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