Jason Smith
Vice President at Innovation in Software
Temecula, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Smith is a Vice President and cloud-native strategist with over two decades of experience helping enterprises and startups adopt, integrate, and automate modern infrastructure. Based in Temecula, he leads technical training and consulting at Innovation in Software, specializing in public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD tooling to drive faster releases, fewer errors, and increased revenue. A certified GCP Solutions Architect and seasoned speaker, he combines hands-on architecture and performance tuning with curriculum design and customer-facing evangelism. His background includes architecting OpenStack and hybrid cloud solutions at Rackspace and Solinea and extending Kubernetes for mixed workloads at Univa, giving him rare expertise across private, public, and multi-tenant cloud stacks. Colleagues rely on him not just for technical depth but for translating complex systems into practical, trainable processes that scale across organizations.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, English, Math,, Information Systems, English, Math, at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (53)
dockerfile9
packer9
docker8
elasticsearch8
vagrant8
single-source8
installer8
linux8
terraform8
bash7
shell7
kubelet6
kubernetes6
katacoda6
k8s5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jruels/learn-terraform-code-organization
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years 5 months
jruels/learn-terraform-modules
Apr 2021 - May 2023
Companion module to the Advanced Modules track on learn.hashicorp.com
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
companionsecurityhashicorpterraform
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