Todd Smith
Senior Rust Systems Engineer at DroneSense, Inc.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Smith is a Senior Rust Systems Engineer with 27+ years of professional software development experience and a 13-year specialty in systems and architecture roles across seven industries. He designs and implements languages, compilers, and virtual machines—co-maintaining the Avail programming language—and brings hands-on systems expertise from back-end tooling (notably contributing performance and feature improvements to Backblaze’s widely used B2 CLI) to embedded and enterprise systems. Todd has held senior and principal engineering roles at organizations including DroneSense, Gilson, and Xebia, where he blended architecture, mentorship, and delivery to solve intricate system problems. Trained in Classics and linguistics, he brings a linguist’s precision to language design and formal systems, enjoying constructed and formal languages as much as natural ones. Known for clear communication and leadership, he excels at shepherding complex projects from research to production while improving testability and performance. Based in Madison, WI, he delights in tackling exquisite technical challenges that sit at the intersection of language theory and practical systems engineering.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Florida State University
English, French, Japanese, Latin
Github Skills (12)
cli10
unit-testing10
command-line-interface10
storage10
b210
python10
cloud-storage10
command-line10
testing10
file-management9
documentation8
json7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Backblaze/B2_Command_Line_Tool
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
The command-line tool that gives easy access to all of the capabilities of B2 Cloud Storage
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Todd primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `b2_command_line_tool` by introducing new features related to bucket size retrieval. They implemented the `--showSize` flag for the `get-bucket` command, enabling the display of file count and total size. Furthermore, the user addressed performance issues and improved the reliability of the command, including adding several new unit tests.
cloud-storagecommand-line-toolproduction
toddATavail/xdy
Feb 2025 - Jun 2026
Complex RPG dice expression evaluator with histogram support.
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 4 months
expression-evaluator
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