Summary
Larry Smithmier is a Principal Consultant and hands-on software engineer with nearly 20 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions for Fortune 1000 clients, specializing in C#/.NET, Azure, Kubernetes, and event-driven systems. He blends enterprise architecture, practice leadership, and individual contributor work—often acting as architect in the morning and shipping production code in the afternoon—and has led migrations, digital transformation playbooks, and developer training programs. A named inventor on US patent 8,549,272 for VM image management born from his work on Dell’s ImageDirect, he brings rare product-to-factory systems experience alongside modern cloud patterns. He co-hosts the Cloud Talk Show and maintains a homelab where he experiments with Kubernetes, Ollama, and self-hosted stacks, grounding theoretical designs in hard-earned operational reality. Based in Wilmington, DE, he is writing a practical Cloud Native Development cookbook and is known for turning complex enterprise requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Mississippi