Summary
Justin Smith is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive systems and leading teams from startup to scale. He blends hands-on engineering—from Kafka, Debezium, ELK, and Kubernetes to Spring Boot and multi-tenant databases—with product-minded architecture, having been developer #2 at a health-tech startup and driven platforms that process billions of documents and millions of conversions per second. Justin has deep experience in medical information systems, real-time patient streaming and detection algorithms, identity/SSO integrations, and audit/log centralization for HIPAA-compliant platforms. A tinkerer at heart who builds microcontroller projects and game bots, he brings a practical, maker’s curiosity to complex distributed problems and mentoring engineers. Based in Jacksonville, he combines rapid learning and mathematical problem-solving with a proven track record of delivering secure, high-performance production services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associates degree, Computer Science, Associates degree, Computer Science at Florida State College Of Jacksonville
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of North Florida