Zachary Smith
Principal Cloud Architect 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
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Tulane University
Github Skills (22)
oracle-cloud10
bare-metal10
oracle-database10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
iaas10
oracle10
orchestration10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
python3
database3
specification2
api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oracle-quickstart/oke-kubeflow
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 13 pushes in 7 months
oracle-quickstart/oci-hadoop
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 24 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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