Patrick Smith is a seasoned engineering leader currently serving as Global Head of Demo Engineering at Google Cloud, where he leads distributed teams across the US, Europe, and Asia to build public-facing demos and executive-grade solutions for the entire GTM organization. He has over a decade of experience designing and shipping cloud-native, AI-driven platforms—especially in media, telecom, and gaming—combining hands-on Python and Go development with architecture and revenue accountability at the VP level. Patrick built and scaled specialist teams that delivered low-latency, high-availability systems for global game publishers and platforms that deploy multimodal generative models at the edge. His background spans customer-facing engineering, ML model development and deployment (TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Kubeflow), and hybrid/edge cloud architectures, and he’s a frequent speaker and educator on machine learning. A less obvious strength is his cross-disciplinary experience in mission-driven investing and public-sector projects, which informs a pragmatic, stakeholder-focused approach to building technical roadmaps.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Economics International Affairs, Bachelor's Degree Economics International Affairs at The George Washington University
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Patrick Smith - Global Head Of Demo Engineering, Google Cloud