Chad Smith
Co-Founder And Principal Cloud Architect at Pearson
Temecula, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorChad Smith is an AWS-certified Cloud Architect and trainer with 11 years of experience designing, operating, and securing geographically distributed cloud applications. As Co-Founder and Principal Cloud Architect at Brightkey.cloud since 2017, he blends hands-on architecture with startup-minded execution to deliver resilient, production-grade cloud solutions. He also authors technical courses for Pearson, translating deep AWS expertise into practical training for engineers and teams. Based in Temecula, California, Chad’s background emphasizes operational security and multi-region reliability—skills honed since his first AWS certification in 2014. Beyond architecture, he brings a practitioner’s perspective to education, making complex cloud patterns accessible and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
architect7
robust7
vpc6
aws5
route534
prometheus3
monitoring3
certification2
python1
nagios1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arpcefxl/aws-network-certification
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Materials for AWS Certified Advanced Network Specialty Certification Crash Course
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 months
vpccrash-courseroute53awscertification
arpcefxl/aws-networking-terraform
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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