Paul Waldo
Lead Cloud Engineer at SMX
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Waldo is a Lead Cloud Engineer with 11+ years of enterprise software experience, currently driving cloud-native infrastructure and automation from Roanoke, Virginia. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Go, Python, and Terraform, and a track record of moving sensitive workloads to AWS—building hardened containers and automation for ML pipelines while ensuring DISA STIG compliance. His background spans full lifecycle systems work from low-level FFmpeg bindings in Go for video processing to architecting scalable web and mobile systems at GEICO, reflecting a rare mix of embedded, backend, and cloud skills. A pragmatic mentor and technical owner, he pairs strong security and ops sensibilities with practical engineering: writing infrastructure as code, integrating queues and S3 inventory for large-scale media processing, and using mocks and unit testing to keep systems robust.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Virginia TechAA, Computer Science, AA, Computer Science at Howard Community College
Github Skills (161)
web-application10
fyne10
grails10
golang10
pylint10
groovy10
android10
repair10
row10
python-extension10
intellisense10
chatgpt9
linux9
vscode-plugin9
cli9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
PaulWaldo/glimmer
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:9 PRs, 105 pushes, 17 branches in 7 months
PaulWaldo/gomoney
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:45 PRs, 155 pushes, 44 branches in 2 years 10 months
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