Kevin Smith
Founder at Poiesic Systems
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Smith is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, teams, and developer experiences. He has led engineering organizations from manager to VP and director roles, delivering global network automation and real-time bidding systems and growing teams from single digits to dozens. Technically hands-on, he designs, deploys, and operates AWS-based platforms (EKS, RDS, Kafka, Lambda) and authors services in Go, Python, and Elixir while championing IaC and CI/CD with Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation. He co-founded and shipped innovative products (including an Elixir/Go chatops bot and a developer tooling startup) and has a track record of turning early engineering work into production-ready, business-transforming releases. Based in Raleigh, NC, Kevin combines product-focused delivery with people-first initiatives around D&I and internal talent development. A pragmatic builder, he often bridges deep low-level engineering (custom runtimes, templating engines) with high-level operational and hiring strategies.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration Management and Operations, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration Management and Operations at California State University, StanislausGithub contributions (4)
engineyard/vertebra-erl
Dec 2008 - Mar 2009
Contributions:68 commits in 3 months
engineyard/natter
Dec 2008 - Mar 2009
Contributions:43 commits in 2 months
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