Chad Schmutzer
Principal Solutions Architect - Sustainability, Graviton at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolChad Schmutzer is a Principal Solutions Architect and seasoned cloud technologist with over a decade of experience helping organizations optimize compute at scale, currently focused on sustainability and Graviton at AWS. He blends deep systems and HPC roots from Caltech with hands-on cloud engineering—authoring infrastructure-as-code and automation for EC2 Spot best practices—to drive cost, performance, and operational efficiency. A former Principal Developer Advocate for EC2 Spot and VP-level solutions engineer at JPMorgan Chase, he excels at translating research and enterprise requirements into scalable, production-ready architectures. Based in Pasadena, Chad pairs public speaking and developer advocacy with practical Linux sysadmin chops and data-driven cost optimization, and his open-source contributions to awslabs/ec2-spot-labs reflect a pragmatic commitment to real-world tooling.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, RiversideMaster's degree Data Analytics, Master's degree Data Analytics at Western Governors University
Github Skills (9)
infrastructure-as-code10
automation10
automations10
cloudwatch10
aws10
ssm9
ias8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/ec2-spot-labs
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Collection of tools and code examples to demonstrate best practices in using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:205 commits, 13 PRs, 176 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chad implemented infrastructure-as-code, automation, and deployment configurations. Contributions included the creation of EC2 spot fleet with launch templates and implementing configurations for various tools and services. The user also worked on configuring logging, interruption handling, and setting up compute optimizer using Amazon CloudWatch agent and SSM, demonstrating a focus on operational efficiency and cost optimization.
instancesecsec2-spot-instancesec2amazon-ec2
awslabs/ec2-spot-jenkins-plugin
Nov 2016 - May 2019
The EC2 Spot Jenkins plugin launches EC2 Spot instances as worker nodes for Jenkins CI server, automatically scaling the capacity with the load.
Contributions:65 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
jenkins-pluginlaunchesspot-instancesworker-nodesworker
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