Albert Smith

Albert Smith began their work experience as a Software Developer at Khanyisa Real Systems in 2004. During this time, they focused on analyzing and delivering software solutions for clients, often working on-site as an outsourced developer. Some notable projects included building a workflow system for a contact center and migrating a system from Sybase ASE to MSSQL 2008.

In 2011, Albert joined HomeChoice as a Senior Software Developer. Over the years, they took on increasing responsibilities, transitioning to an Engineering Team Lead role in 2016. In this position, they led a team in breaking down a monolithic system into microservices and deploying them on AWS EKS. Additionally, they served as a Software Development Manager for the Platform Team, overseeing the operation and application workloads of Amazon EKS clusters. Albert's contributions included implementing a templatized pipeline on GitLab for deploying application workloads using a custom Helm chart.

Most recently, Albert joined Deimos in November 2021 as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer. Beyond this information, no specific details about their tenure at Deimos are provided.

Albert Smith received their Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Informatics from the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, where they studied from 2009 to 2016. Prior to that, in 2002, they obtained a Computer Science Diploma in Computer Software Engineering from CTI Education Group.

Albert also holds several certifications. In 2008, they obtained the Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist certification in SQL Server 2008 Database Development, as well as the Microsoft® Certified Professional Developer certification in Windows Developer. Additionally, in 2008, they obtained the Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist certification in .Net Framework 2.0, Windows Applications. Later, in 2012, they became a Microsoft Certified Professional. Most recently, in 2022, Albert obtained the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification.