Derrick Smith

Derrick Smith currently serves as a Sr IT Client Endpoint Engineer at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a position held since June 2025. Prior roles include IT Architect at Instabase, IT Systems Engineering Manager at Verkada, and Senior IT Engineer at Cruise, where responsibilities focused on supporting and administrating various systems, including Jira, Confluence, and Okta. Derrick's experience extends to Palantir Technologies as a Systems Engineer and IT/UNIX Systems Engineer, where expertise in Atlassian products and hybrid configurations with Microsoft O365 was demonstrated. Additional contributions were made at CCI Systems, Inc. as Operations Engineer, GoTech LLC as Lead Technician, and Michigan Technological University in IT Operations. Derrick earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems and Network Administration from Michigan Technological University.