Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith is a seasoned professional with over a decade of experience specializing in building software distribution pipelines, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. He has amassed a diverse skill set and expertise in a range of platforms and tools including AWS, Terragrunt, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Spinnaker, and more.

With a strong educational background, Ryan holds a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Engineering from UC Irvine, a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Physics from UC Irvine, and an Associate of Science (A.S.) in Mathematics from Mount San Jacinto College.

Ryan Smith has held key roles in prestigious organizations such as Netflix as a Senior Software Engineer, Calm as a Senior DevOps Engineer, and Veritone, Inc. as a DevOps Architect. He has also served in various capacities at Veritone, Inc., Lantern Credit, Realogic Analytics, Inc., Lifespeed, and UC Irvine, showcasing a rich professional journey.

His expertise spans a wide array of technologies including Bash, Golang, Python, Typescript, and numerous databases and services such as Aurora Postgres, Elasticache Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, SQS, SNS, among others. Additionally, he is well-versed in observability tools like Datadog and incident management with PagerDuty.

In his spare time, Ryan Smith also contributes as an Open Source Developer, reflecting his commitment to continuous learning and community engagement.