Thrive Spotlight: Channing Smith – Junior Developer, Digital Platform

Welcome back to another installment of our “Thrive Spotlight” blog series.

Our featured employee is Channing Smith, Junior Developer, Digital Platform.  Channing works on the Digital Platform Development team working on a variety of internal projects and integrations with ServiceNow.  He lives in Charleston, South Carolina near our new office.

Outside of work, Channing leads a local run club in Charleston, he maps out weekly runs and social events.  In addition to running, Channing also enjoys cooking, playing Rummikub, and hanging out with his 3-year-old labradoodle Archie, and his girlfriend Elsie.

Hi Channing!  Can you tell us about your background and how you came to Thrive?

I came to Thrive as an intern on the Digital Platform Development team during my last semester of college at College of Charleston, then transitioned to a full-time position post-graduation.  Throughout college, I was in the Honors College, and primarily involved in researching Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Software.  I served as co-president of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, an honor society of computing, and completed internships with RedHat as a full-stack developer and Northstar Travel Group as a cybersecurity architect intern.

Where did you go to school or get training?

I attended the College of Charleston and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science with minors in Philosophy and Data Science in May of 2024.

What do you most enjoy about working for Thrive?

The most enjoyable part of my day-to-day is the people I work with.  The entire Digital Platform team has been super welcoming to me, and I really admire how much I learn from everyone on the team every day.  I also really like how involved I am in the business process behind the integrations I work on.

Are there any recent exciting projects at Thrive you can tell us about?

I have recently been working on the N-Able/N-Central integration alongside Jon Bruce and Brian MacMillan which reduces the Logic Apps cost. Before this integration, the Event Management team was logging into N-Central and creating tickets manually, but we are now automatically creating tickets. This will improve our response time and accuracy when monitoring a client’s environment.

I have also been working on a project related to invoicing with Business Operations and Finance that involves migrating to a new invoice recipient field to reduce errors and typos in the current String field.

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