Dameon Smith
AI Engineering Fello at Gauntlet AI
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDameon Smith is an AWS-native cloud and DevOps engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable web and mobile systems, leading infrastructure for a global video game platform, and driving multi-region Kubernetes deployments. As Head of DevOps at Nifty Island he cut infrastructure costs by 50%, owned cloud security and compliance, and engineered a media pipeline that processed millions of assets with <1% error rates. Now deepening his ML, MLOps, and AI integration skills as an AI Engineering Fellow at Gauntlet AI, he focuses on embedding modern AI tooling, custom agents, and model observability into SDLCs. He brings a broad background from startup founding and freelance work to enterprise migrations and Security-as-Code, and is exploring how his cloud and automation expertise can extend into IoT and hardware domains.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at Central New Mexico Community College
Github Skills (81)
controller10
kubernetes-setup10
kubernetes-cluster10
kubernetes-deployment10
aws-cloudformation10
amazon10
amazon-eks10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
cli9
kubelet9
k8s9
ingress9
release-management9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DameonSmith/aws-meetup-ansible
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
DameonSmith/aws-meetup-template
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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