Michael Smith Email Address

Senior Staff Software Architect

The official home of @HBO @WarnerBros @TNTDrama @TBSNetwork @CNN @DCComics @NewLineCinema @CartoonNetwork @AdultSwim @TCM @trutv @bleacherreport and more!

I've worn a few hats in my career. I've done full stack development. I've written code that has scaled out to a million users. I have helped to migrate companies to the cloud. I've helped teams re-architect their on-premise architectures for the cloud. I like working on challenging projects. As far as work structure goes, I have worked as a member of a development team as well as led development teams. I've also been the sole developer on projects where I gathered the requirements and coded and implemented the solution. I’m currently working on a multi brand real-time analytics system at crazy scale. I've developed Windows GUI's using the Windows SDK as well as websites using Node.js, PHP, ASP .Net, Go, HTML using frameworks like Angular and React. I've used a variety of approaches/methodologies including Waterfall, TDD, Kanban, and Agile. I've coded on monoliths as well as web services. Cloud experience: AWS(10 years of experience) GCP(4 years of experience) - Former Certified Architect(from 2019 -2021) Programming experience: Javascript, Go, Python(languages I'm using more often today) C, C++, VB, Java, PHP(languages I've used in the past but am not actively using) Elixir, Clojure, Scala(Languages I've dabbled in but have nothing running in production with them) Terraform(8 years) - not really a language but a requirement for any Cloud Architect; I don't build an Amazon or GCP stack without it("automate all things") My tech goals for 2022: - Complete AWS Solutions Architect certification. - Learn Rust(I like dabbling with a new programming language every year). Techy side projects: - Separated my home traffic into Work, Family, IOT, DMZ, and Gaming subnets to provide security, isolation and QOS so we do higher quality zoom and webex calls. :) - Connected home weather and speed test data into a Grafana dashboard running as a docker container on a raspberry pi.