Martin Smith
Principal Cloud Architect, SRE at NVIDIA
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMartin Smith is a Principal Cloud Architect and SRE with 19 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale, highly reliable cloud platforms. He has led reliability strategy, incident command, and SLO programs at HashiCorp and now heads DGX Cloud reliability work at NVIDIA, blending deep operational expertise with strategic platform engineering. Martin’s background spans building observability and CI/CD foundations, automating complex deployments with Chef, and driving FinOps and disaster recovery practices across multi-cloud environments. An active open-source DevOps contributor, he improved critical cookbooks for Redis, Logstash, and Elasticsearch, strengthening cross-platform service management and testability. Based in Gainesville, FL, he pairs academic training in computer science with a pragmatic, mentor-first approach to building self-healing infrastructure and developer-friendly operational tooling.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Florida
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Github Skills (27)
test-kitchen10
cookbook10
testing10
chefspec10
cicd10
chef-client10
automation10
system-administration10
systemd10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
redis9
ubuntu9
ruby9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/elasticsearch
Aug 2014 - Dec 2019
Development repository for the elasticsearch cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 217 commits, 201 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on establishing a solid testing and CI/CD foundation for the Elasticsearch cookbook. Their contributions included the initial setup of testing infrastructure, the implementation of Rake tasks, and the renaming of documentation files to README.md. They also integrated default test suites using ChefSpec and Test Kitchen/Serverspec, alongside test fixtures and detailed documentation on testing processes, leading to a more robust and streamlined development workflow.
cookbookelasticsearchchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
lusis/chef-logstash
Aug 2014 - Jun 2017
Semi-official Logstash cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 28 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the Logstash cookbook's service management and build process. Their commits include fixing restart and start actions within the service provider. They addressed an issue related to the init script's status command, ensuring proper exit codes. Furthermore, they refactored default attribute handling and updated the codebase by merging remote-tracking branches and incorporating fixes.
cookbooksemilogstashelasticsearchchef-resource
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