Cody Smith
Staff Software Engineer — Full-stack & AI Systems
Open to Senior II and Staff opportunities
Hi — I'm Cody, a Staff-level full-stack engineer with 14+ years building scalable backends, polished frontends, and AI-powered developer workflows. I designed, built, and deployed this site end-to-end to demonstrate ownership, craft, and practical engineering judgment.
About this site
Built to showcase full-stack execution — from idea to running product. It's both portfolio and proof-of-concept: conceiving, designing, building, deploying, and maintaining production systems with modern tools and strong fundamentals.
- Next.js (App Router) + Tailwind for full-stack React & responsive UI
- Neon Postgres + Drizzle ORM for schema & queries
- Upstash Redis for hot-path caching (e.g., reactions)
- Vercel for build, deploy, hosting; direct DNS/domain management
- Responsive, accessible, and keyboard-friendly by default
- Lean payloads, measured caching, predictable performance
- Postgres as source of truth, Redis as cache
- Small surface area; simple, reliable operations
Highlights
- Reduced load 33%
Integrated team telemetry into ML triage to cut support burden and speed resolution.
- Real-time reliability
Directed a screen-sharing platform; lowered time-to-resolution ~20% and raised CSAT.
- Replication throughput ×2
Doubled replication throughput and boosted stability ~30% for 20TB+ assets.
Internationalization
The site is fully translated and locale-routed with next-intl. Use the header switcher to view English, Español, and Français. URLs are locale-aware (/en, /es, /fr) for better UX and SEO.