Adam Smith
Senior Network Engineer II at DigitalOcean
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Smith is a Senior Network Engineer with 12 years of experience designing, operating, and automating large-scale multi-vendor networks across cloud and on-prem environments. He has managed production networks for major providers (DigitalOcean, Akamai, New Relic, DigiCert, Groupon) and overseen fleets of 900+ devices while driving multi-datacenter expansions and hybrid cloud connectivity. Skilled in Python, Go, Ruby, Terraform, and Ansible, he builds automation and tooling that improve reliability and accelerate deployments, and he’s bolstered open-source projects like Oxidized and octodns to reduce credential exposure and strengthen DNS provider integrations. Known for pragmatic ownership and clear documentation, he combines hands-on packet-level expertise with infrastructure-as-code practices to make complex networks repeatable and auditable. Based in Pennsylvania, he brings a track record of translating large, messy environments into maintainable, secure systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer and Information Systems, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer and Information Systems at Alfred State College - SUNY College of Technology
Github Skills (15)
apim10
infrastructure-as-code10
configuration-management10
backup10
security-hardening10
network-security10
api10
dns10
python10
recovery10
testing9
py9
workflow-engine9
cloudflare8
digitalocean8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
octodns/octodns
Oct 2017 - Jul 2022
Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:42 reviews, 37 commits, 36 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the DNS management tools. They focused on improving the provider integrations, specifically with NS1, DigitalOcean, DNSMadeEasy, Constellix, and Cloudflare. The commits reveal contributions related to error handling, data validation, and feature enhancements to the provider integrations, including support for new record types and API updates. The user also worked on the testing framework and configuration management.
dnsprovidersdns-recordinfrastructure-as-codeworkflow
ytti/oxidized
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the security of the Oxidized network configuration backup tool. Their contributions involved adding code to remove or obfuscate sensitive information like secrets, passwords, and pre-shared keys from various network device configurations (EdgeOS, Vyatta, JunOS, and EOS). They also improved the tool's ability to capture ZebOS configurations from F5 devices. These changes aim to prevent sensitive credentials from being stored in plain text or exposed within the backups.
nmsoxidizedrancidbackup-toolnetwork
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