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 (81)
surveillance9
aws9
cli8
amazon-kinesis8
terraform8
tooling8
terraform-provider8
terraform-templates8
automation7
harbor7
linux7
looker7
python7
machine-learning7
aws-ecs7
Programming languages (7)
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/kplserver
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
Exposes the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library via sockets for multi-language support
Contributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 11 months
amazon-kinesisawskinesiskplbigdata
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