David Smith
Data, Cloud And Software Architecture Fractional CTO Consultant
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Smith is a seasoned technology executive and fractional CTO specializing in data, cloud, and software architecture with 11 years of hands-on experience and a 15+-year technology career arc across startups and enterprise. Based in Denver, he has led engineering organizations from early-stage to scale, building secure, serverless SaaS, production ML pipelines, and multi-service cloud architectures that handled 10x growth while meeting SLAs and compliance requirements like SOC II/HIPAA. He’s skilled at turning messy data into operational insights—designing reusable ETL and feature libraries, automated MLOps lifecycles, and real-time IoT dashboards—and has driven major data platforms used in large health research partnerships. Comfortable both in the boardroom and the codebase, he blends product-minded leadership with deep AWS and data engineering expertise to define strategy, roadmaps, and hiring needs for technical teams. An MBA from USC and a background in building mission-critical systems for health tech and enterprise SaaS give him a rare combination of business acumen and technical depth.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science Business Administration, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science Business Administration at University of New HampshireMBA Business, MBA Business at USC Marshall School of Business
Github Skills (43)
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
machine-learning10
workflow-engine10
apache10
scheduler10
etl10
automation10
dag10
mlops10
airflow10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
suburbanmtman/hadoop-2.7.3-spark-localstack
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Hadoop 2.7.3 with modifications to allow Spark to integrate with localstack S3
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
emrmodificationsspark-mllocalstackspark
suburbanmtman/airflow
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Apache Airflow
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
bigqueryapacheapache-flinkairflowapache-airflow
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