Jᴀɪᴋ Sᴍɪᴛʜ
TDI Vertical at TDI VERTICAL
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJaik Smith is a seasoned Security Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience across IT operations, vulnerability management, endpoint security, and enterprise infrastructure, now leading SecOps at an MSSP to mature detection and response for multi-tenant AWS environments. He combines deep platform experience (CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, Okta, JumpCloud, Jamf, Intune) with practical SOAR automation and CI/CD security integration, consistently turning complex security gaps into repeatable, auditable workflows. Jaik’s background spans frontline support to senior security roles at Toast and ErisX, giving him a rare blend of operational empathy and programmatic rigor in vulnerability and compliance programs. He pairs technical craft with creative patience—honed as a woodworker and beekeeper—which influences his deliberate, detail-oriented approach to hardening and incident response. A disciplined problem-solver, he once rode 4,400 miles solo for cancer prevention, a feat he cites as formative for persistence and methodical progress. Based in Asheville, NC, he codes in Python, Rust, Java and C++ and brings an engineer’s curiosity to both infrastructure and tooling that “seems fun.”
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Jackson High SchoolForest Hills Northern High School
German
Github Skills (42)
javascript10
twitter10
python10
jinja210
lastfm10
social-media10
flask10
null-safety9
assemblyscript9
kerbal-space8
console7
lisp7
emscripten6
rust6
webassembly6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jakeledoux/lastresort
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
A browser extension that fixes annoying cosmetic Last.fm issues.
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 2 months
browserfixescosmeticfirefox-addonbrowser-extension
crabber-net/crabber
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
A Twitter clone written in Python + Flask with extended features and a focus on inclusivity.
Contributions:1 review, 1114 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 9 months
social-networkjinja2pythonextendedflask
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