Summary
Joshua Smith is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services in San Francisco, specializing in designing elastic, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions for hyper-scale enterprises. He is a serverless and event-driven architectures expert, evangelizing compute models with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, S3, and DynamoDB, and he leads workshops while mentoring the next generation of cloud architects. His background spans roles at AWS and Accenture and includes co-founding Coinmunity, reflecting a blend of engineering prowess and entrepreneurial leadership, with experience across security, storage, and cloud-native strategies for crypto exchanges and Web3. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Old Dominion University and an MS in Computer Science from UIUC, and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area where he applies a working backwards approach to translate business objectives into practical technical solutions. Outside of day-to-day delivery, he has a track record of helping teams simplify developer experience and build scalable, secure systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English