Zach Smith
Finance Manager - IT, Business Excellence, Operations, & Strategic Services
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Smith is a finance leader based in Austin with 12+ years of experience driving FP&A, strategic planning, and operational efficiency across IT, customer care, and fulfillment functions. At HID Global he manages ~$70M in annual budgets, delivered $3M in IT cost reductions that accelerated company profitability goals, and builds business cases using rigorous ROI/NPV/TCO analysis. He pairs strong financial modeling and advanced Excel/VBA skills with a hands-on mindset—earning a “seat at the table” by embedding in cross-functional teams to simplify complex decisions and present clear recommendations to executives. Earlier roles at Gap Inc. and Neiman Marcus honed his forecasting and controls expertise across multi‑billion-dollar merchandise flows and global brand reporting. Unusually for a finance manager, Zach also contributes to open-source cloud tooling—having code contributions to major Spinnaker components—bringing a practical engineering perspective to cloud cost and deployment discussions. He’s known as a steady, collaborative mentor who thrives under pressure and converts operational challenges into learning and measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Organizational Management & Entrepreneurial Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Organizational Management & Entrepreneurial Studies at The University of New Mexico - Robert O. Anderson School of Management
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
cloud-foundry10
groovy10
typescript10
java10
javas10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
spinnaker10
react10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
front-end-development9
appengine9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/clouddriver
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 46 commits, 71 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the `clouddriver` repository, focusing on enhancing and maintaining the Cloud Foundry (CF) provider. Their work involved implementing space caching agents, adjusting load balancer lookups, and resolving issues related to server group states. Additionally, they made modifications related to service bindings and improved the handling of docker deployments within the CF environment. The user's changes improved various aspects of the cloud foundry deployment process and fixed various issues, demonstrating a focus on operational efficiency.
gcpproviderscloudcloud-providersazure
spinnaker/deck
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Management UI for Spinnaker
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 15 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the Spinnaker/Deck UI, focusing on both front-end and backend aspects. Their work included fixing bugs related to application data sources, and rendering of artifacts in appengine. The user also added new features such as the bake CloudFoundry manifest stage, and create service binding stage. They also added alias details to the infra view.
reactmanagement-uispinnakerreactjsapollo-client
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