Charles Smith

Charles Smith is an Associate Director specializing in Networking, Security, and Infrastructure at Kyndryl, where they lead solutions architecture for data center networks and IT security deployments on Defence programs. With extensive experience as a consultant and architect for supercomputing and network infrastructures, Charles has advised multinational corporations, federal government agencies, and research institutions across Australia, the Asia-Pacific Region, and the United States. They have held key roles at Cisco, IBM, Vallona Networks, Motorola Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent, and CSIRO, contributing to significant projects such as the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope initiative. Charles holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing from the University of Sydney and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Canberra.