Summary
Mark Smith is a veteran Linux, network, and systems engineer with over 30 years of hands-on experience and a modern DevOps mindset, currently leading Halibut Electronics as Head Cheese. He spent 15+ years at AWS as a Senior Systems Development Engineer and now focuses on serverless Python applications in AWS and operating data collection and presentation pipelines at hundreds of TB/day scale. Equally comfortable in software and hardware, he designs digital, analog (audiophile-grade), and RF electronics with accompanying firmware—an unusual full-stack of cloud-to-silicon expertise. Based in Arroyo Grande, CA, he blends engineering leadership with maker curiosity, holding a BS in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Outside work he’s an active ham radio operator (N6MTS), audiophile and music lover, traits that inform both his RF projects and attention to signal fidelity in systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo