Zachary Smith
Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Smith is a Principal Cloud Architect with 8 years of focused experience optimizing extremely large cloud workloads across Big Data, AI, HPC, and GPU-accelerated systems. Based in the Nashville area, he has driven customer adoption and performance tuning at Oracle, evolving from cloud automation and big data platform work to leading support for GPU superclusters for AI/ML. He combines deep hands-on engineering—Terraform quick-starts, cloud automation, and performance analysis—with strategic customer engagement for enterprise-scale deployments. His background includes designing and hardening large Hadoop, Splunk, and Elasticsearch ecosystems at major financial and healthcare organizations, giving him a strong operational and security mindset. Known for bridging engineering and customer strategy, he routinely translates complex infrastructure constraints into repeatable, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Tulane University
Github Skills (27)
oracle-cloud10
bare-metal10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
iaas10
oracle10
orchestration10
cloudera10
terraform-module10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
hadoop9
cdp9
spark9
driver5
api4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oracle-quickstart/oke-airflow
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 52 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
oracle-led
oracle-quickstart/oci-cloudera
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Terraform module to deploy Cloudera on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Contributions:5 releases, 262 commits, 161 pushes in 3 years 2 months
clouderaoracleoracle-cloud-infrastructureterraform-moduleterraform
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