Justin Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Smith is a Senior Software Development Engineer specializing in cryptography and cloud security with 12 years of professional experience, currently building cryptographic services at AWS from Ashburn, Virginia. He has progressed through multiple security and SDE roles at AWS since 2015, blending research-grade rigor from a Ph.D. background with production-grade engineering to secure large-scale cloud platforms. Prior academic roles as lecturer and assistant professor hint at strong communication and mentoring skills that complement his technical ownership. His early work as a security engineer and long tenure at AWS indicate deep familiarity with threat models, secure system design, and operational hardening. Justin maintains a public GitHub presence, signaling an interest in open development and reproducible engineering practices. He brings a rare mix of academic depth and hands-on cloud security execution that accelerates delivery of auditable, high-assurance services.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (16)
boringssl10
ruby-wrapper10
cryptography9
encryption9
aws9
openssl9
padding9
lru8
ruby5
rubygems4
transform3
julia2
fourier-transform2
barracuda1
architecture1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
justinwsmith/aws-lc-rs
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
aws-lc-rs is a cryptographic library using AWS-LC for its cryptographic operations. The library strives to be API-compatible with the popular Rust library named ring.
Contributions:73 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 9 months
justinwsmith/aws-lc
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:75 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
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