Curtis Smith is a systems architect with over 20 years of hands-on networking and security experience and eight years in enterprise roles at Cisco, where he serves as the primary wireless and security technical lead for a premier global financial account. He has designed and scaled some of the largest single-campus wireless and security deployments in healthcare and higher education, including a 4,000‑AP mobility domain and large-scale VPN and ISE rollouts. Curtis evangelizes network programmability and automation as a member of Cisco’s DevNet Tiger Team and regularly delivers labs and DevNet workshops to drive adoption. A former author and technical reviewer on open-source server and mail topics, he blends deep Unix and infrastructure roots with modern enterprise networking practice. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he balances technical rigor with community and family commitments—he’s a Third Degree Knight of Columbus and an amateur radio operator (KD8SMY).
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities, Philosophy at The Ohio State University
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