Wade Smith
Director, Data Engineering
Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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SeniorWade Smith is a seasoned data engineering manager with 30+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise data platforms across healthcare, insurance, and SaaS organizations. He combines hands‑on architecture and pipeline development with leadership—building high‑performing teams, mentoring engineers, and driving cloud-first platforms on AWS and Azure. Wade has led end-to-end modernizations that enabled near‑real‑time analytics, machine learning, and generative AI in regulated environments while ensuring HIPAA compliance, governance, and data interoperability. Known for translating executive-level business needs into reliable, production-grade solutions, he’s equally comfortable shaping roadmap strategy and writing ETL/ELT code. Based in Franklin, Tennessee, he brings deep domain expertise in clinical and claims data and a track record of turning proofs‑of‑concept into scalable production systems. An experienced consultant and architect, Wade’s career reflects a rare combination of long-term technical depth and practical delivery across startups and large enterprises.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (1)
machine-learning2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wade-wws/wade-wws.github.io
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
jaburns/madjam-unity
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 3 days
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