Summary
Drew Smith is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building systems from DNS and bare metal to cloud-native services, currently focused at DashFuel. He blends hands-on engineering and architecture work with security expertise, teaching and mentoring as an adjunct instructor for Georgia Tech's information security courses since 2019. Drew has operated across startups and large organizations—leading teams at EquipmentShare, shaping solutions at AWS, and driving principal engineering at FireMon—bringing a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to distributed systems. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and treats failures as learning opportunities, often turning operational issues into durable process and design improvements. Based in the Kansas City area, he combines deep infrastructure instincts with a passion for continuous learning and classroom-to-production feedback loops.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Maple Woods Community College
Computer Information Systems, Information Security, Computer Information Systems, Information Security at DeVry University