Deron Smith
Principal Software Engineer at Bluestaq
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeron Smith is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience translating scientific research into production-grade software, currently leading engineering at Bluestaq after a multi-year tenure as an IT Specialist at the EPA. He combines a Georgia Tech MS in Computer Science with deep domain experience in numerical modeling, geospatial processing, cloud-native architectures, and machine learning to deliver containerized, asynchronous microservice solutions. Deron has led projects from prototype to published scientific applications, acting as PI, lead architect, and developer across diverse stacks (C#, Python, JS) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GEE). He’s comfortable bridging multidisciplinary teams—scientists, researchers, and ops—to turn experimental workflows into scalable, tested deployments. A less obvious strength is his breadth across both legacy and cutting-edge tooling, enabling pragmatic modernization of environmental modeling pipelines while keeping reproducibility and scalability front of mind.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Github Skills (49)
sarif10
hosting10
javascript9
quickbooks9
data-exchange9
data-model9
python9
fortran9
django-models9
risk-assessment9
cts8
django-blog8
django-rest-framework7
django7
flask7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
quanted/qed_kube
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
QED Kubernetes repo
Contributions:94 pushes, 3 branches, 10 comments in 2 years 6 months
seccompqedresource-managementk8skubernetes
quanted/static_qed
Mar 2017 - May 2022
static css, js, html elements for qed projects
Contributions:1 review, 58 PRs, 223 pushes in 5 years 3 months
css-jselementscssjavascriptqed
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