Summary
Ukiah Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and API-driven systems, currently focused on Go, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS at GoDaddy. He brings deep operational chops from roles at Apple and Kong, where he architected highly available API gateway and microservices deployments and worked directly with enterprise customers to troubleshoot production systems. Comfortable across DevOps and backend engineering, Ukiah has a history of automating deployments with GitHub Actions, creating Docker tooling, and shaping HTTP/REST and DKIM-related mail systems. Based in Louisville, he blends startup agility with enterprise rigor, and is known for quietly improving developer workflows and runbooks that keep large-scale services reliable.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Louisville