Michael Smith
Principal Engineer at SoundCloud
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a Principal Engineer with 13+ years building and architecting cloud-native systems that operate at crazy scale, including multi-region real-time analytics handling millions of events per day. He blends hands-on development in Go and Java with deep AWS expertise (running production workloads since 2012) and a decade of Terraform-driven infrastructure-as-code. At companies from Turner to Warner Bros. Discovery and SoundCloud he has led migrations from on-prem to cloud, designed resilient multi-AZ/multi-region stacks, and instrumented observability and cost controls. Comfortable as an individual contributor or team lead, he’s shipped everything from Windows SDK GUIs to Fargate services, Kinesis/Flink pipelines, and Snowflake/ELT integrations. He favors pragmatic architectures—automated, repeatable, encrypted, least-privilege deployments with autoscaling and alerting—and has a proven habit of reorganizing Terraform into reusable modules. Based in Marietta, GA, he pairs a developer’s curiosity with an architect’s focus on business outcomes and weekend-friendly reliability.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BBA MIS, BBA MIS at University of Georgia - Terry College of Business
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Github Skills (91)
surveillance9
aws9
scheduler8
python8
terraform8
machine-learning8
terraform-provider8
amazon8
monitor8
tooling7
etl7
automation7
terraform-module7
command-line-interface7
looker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
turnerlabs/airflow_stacks
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Some airflow stacks we are working on at Turner
Contributions:331 commits, 77 PRs, 267 pushes in 10 months
working-onpythonairflowstacks
turnerlabs/airflow_stack_docker
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Airflow using docker containers. Simplifies local development
Contributions:27 commits, 13 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
containerspythonlocal-developmentdockerdocker-compose
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