Brian Smith
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at State Farm
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Smith is a pragmatic engineering leader with over a decade driving large-scale modernization, cloud, and big data initiatives at State Farm. He blends hands-on development in Java, Scala, Python and functional languages with infrastructure expertise across Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, EMR and EKS to help business teams analyze terabytes to petabytes of data. As a lead in quantum computing and infrastructure, he frames emerging tech in practical enterprise adoption pathways rather than academic proofs-of-concept. Known for pairing agile delivery with deep performance and monitoring focus, he consistently moves projects from architecture to production and ongoing service. Based in Texas, he brings two decades of testing, development, and leadership experience that surfaces early clarity on requirements and measurable delivery improvements. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical trade-offs into actionable plans that reduce risk and accelerate value.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems at DeVry University-Illinois
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lostlocalhost/METARMap
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Tweaked version from prueker/METARMap
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years
lostlocalhost/lostlocalhost.github.io
Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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