Spencer Smith
Director, Site Reliability And Customer Success at Sidero Labs, Inc.
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Smith is a Senior Director focused on infrastructure, security, and reliability with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms. Based in Greenville, SC, he leads infrastructure and SRE efforts at Sidero Labs after rising through roles from solutions architect to director, blending operational leadership with deep technical execution. He’s an expert in Kubernetes, containers, Terraform/CloudFormation, and configuration management, and has a history of building GitOps pipelines, operators, and Prometheus instrumentation. An active open-source contributor and co-maintainer on projects like kubespray and Talos Linux, he’s improved production Kubernetes deployments and added multi-cloud integrations (notably GCP support) to core tooling. Peers describe him as the kind of leader who still dives into shell scripts, Dockerfiles, and CI tweaks to unblock teams while shaping long-term reliability strategy. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Clemson University and consistently pairs practical automation with platform-level thinking to accelerate customer outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Clemson University
Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
load-balancing10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
automation10
script10
infrastructure10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
siderolabs/talos
Feb 2019 - Jul 2022
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:399 reviews, 268 commits, 447 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributed to adding and improving features for the Talos Linux project, focusing on integrating cloud services, adding functionalities for network configuration, and enhancing the operational aspects of the system. They implemented Google Cloud Platform integration, expanded the capabilities of the osctl utility, and introduced DHCP client functionality. Moreover, the user addressed build and deployment aspects, including CI improvements and adjustments to configuration, indicating involvement in both back-end development and DevOps practices.
containersmuslcontainerdlinux-distributiongrpc
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Feb 2016 - Apr 2018
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:208 commits, 217 PRs, 144 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributed to infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Kubernetes cluster. They made changes to shell scripts, Docker configurations, and Kubernetes manifests, including updates for proxy support, cloud provider configurations (AWS), and various system configurations. Their work involved modifying deployment scripts, container definitions, and service configurations to improve functionality and integrate with external services. The user also made several adjustments related to custom flags and mounting various OS related files.
bare-metalkubesprayhelmproduction-readyansible
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