Summary
Smith Sopp is a software engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems and developer tooling, currently at Square in Philadelphia. He has a strong background in AWS serverless and container platforms, having shipped enterprise-grade monitoring, CI/CD, and IaC solutions at Vanguard that drastically improved reliability and lead times. Comfortable across the stack, he’s implemented Java Spring microservices, Python automation libraries, and embedded systems early in his career, and has led intern cohorts and large technical events. Smith combines pragmatic engineering with operational rigor—his work includes internal Python packages for synthetic testing and a serverless health monitor consolidating microservice metrics. He’s equally at home automating tedious workflows as presenting to senior leadership, and enjoys the small wins like recalling the right tar command on the first try.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Penn State University