Ash Smith
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at RegGenome
Wychavon, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorAsh Smith is a platform-focused Principal Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native, serverless, and DevOps-driven systems. He has led infrastructure strategy across startups and agencies, shaping Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS deployments while building Helm charts, Terraform, and CDK-backed microservice platforms. Known for shipping customer-facing features—like booking and accounting services—and improving observability, performance, and security posture (SOC 2 / ISO27001) under tight deadlines, he blends product impact with infrastructure rigor. Ash mentors teams on cloud best practices, introduced event-driven architectures and automated testing across codebases, and has repeatedly turned incidents into durable improvements. Based in Wychavon, England, he pairs pragmatic engineering with clear stakeholder communication and a knack for squeezing efficiency out of serverless limits (e.g., handling Airtable rate-limits without wasting compute). Outside typical infra work, he’s comfortable owning both backend feature delivery and the underlying platform that enables rapid, secure releases.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (85)
adobe10
magento10
affiliates10
ecommerce10
php10
typescript-types9
magento-extension9
azure8
docker-compose8
varnish8
background-image8
openapi8
docker-container8
swagger8
terraform8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PlaySportsGroup/docker-php
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
Generic php docker images, to serve as a starting point for dockerised php projects.
Contributions:25 PRs, 58 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 11 months
docker-imagephp
ashsmith/rollup-functions
Jul 2020 - Oct 2023
Proof of concept to use rollup to produce lambda functions zips.
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
lambda-functions
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