Summary
Kolin Smith is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a decade of experience designing and automating scalable Azure environments across multi-tenant enterprises. He specializes in Infrastructure as Code—Terraform, Packer, Ansible—and builds reusable modules and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines that have cut deployments by 60% and boosted reliability by 75%. At NorthMark he led migrations from manual processes to automated IaC workflows, contributing to a 25% reduction in cloud spend while maintaining performance. Comfortable across Linux and Windows, he pairs scripting (PowerShell, Bash) with platform expertise to streamline operations and enforce enterprise-wide standards. Outside work he runs multiple self-hosted services (pfSense, NextCloud, NginxProxyManager) on custom hardware, applying the same automation practices to personal projects for rapid testing and tooling validation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, Computer Science and Software Engineering, BS Computer Science, Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
English