Warren Smith

Military veteran and self-taught engineer with 10+ years delivering everything from low-level C kernels and game engines to large-scale cloud analytics platforms. Expert in AWS, IaC, CI/CD, and performance optimisation. Led cross-functional teams (up to 15 engineers) and built award-winning products, including an indie Metroidvania and a global cyber-security sensor mesh processing 5 TB+ data/day. Passionate about generative AI, edge LLMs, and shipping elegant, observable systems.

• Languages & Frameworks: C, C++, C#, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core/Blazor, Electron, MonoGame
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Redshift, EKS), Terraform, Pulumi, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline
• Data & Messaging: Redshift, DynamoDB, MSSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Athena, Kibana, Splunk, RabbitMQ, Redis
• Practices: CI/CD, IaC, Micro-services, Event-driven design, Multithreading, TDD, Security & Compliance (FedRAMP, DoD)
• AI / ML: Whisper, Ollama, LlamaIndex, AutoML, OpenCV, Edge LLM orchestration

Telos Corporation — Software Architect & Lead Engineer, PreCheck Program
Jul 2023 – Apr 2025 · Ashburn VA (Remote)

• Audited legacy kiosk codebase; delivered critical hot-fixes that eliminated daily outages and stabilised throughput within 3 weeks.
• Co-managed 12-person SCRUM team; defined micro-service architecture & product roadmap, breaking features into epics/stories.
• Built TypeScript/Electron USB-Pay-Display interface for Clover devices; allowing for on-site POS capability.
• Authored Splunk queries & dashboards consumed by Ops/BA, cutting incident triage time from 40 min to 8 min.
• Implemented AWS Lambda image post-processor that cleans backgrounds & generates CV metrics; improved enrollment rates.

Telos Corporation — AWS Solutions Architect & Lead Software Engineer, Advanced Cyber Analytics
Jun 2021 – Jul 2023

• Co-designed multi-cloud sensor network (AWS/Azure/GCP/Linode/OVH/DigitalOcean) via Pulumi; deploys in < 15 min, 99.99% uptime.
• Led 15 engineers to deliver RedWidow real-time PaloAlto/Zeek analytics (US DOE, $2M); zero packet loss across 2-month demo.
• Created serverless ETL (Lambda + Redshift Spectrum) trimming warehousing costs 92% (~$1.7 M/yr).
• Standardised logging with custom Log4Net → CloudWatch; MTTR fell from 30 min to 6 min.

Telos Corporation — Staff Engineer & Web Developer
Sep 2019 – Jul 2021

• Built dozens of single-purpose executables & ETL services automating analyst workflows, reclaiming 200+ hrs/month.
• Orchestrated data-enrichment pipeline leveraging open-source APIs & crawlers; enriched 5B+ IOC records with < 2% error rate.

ReachMobi — Software Engineer
Jul 2018 – Sep 2019

• Collaborated with Campaign Managers to create automation that increased un-managed gross revenue 15% MoM.
• Led daily mobile-app dev syncs across multiple products; introduced CI pipeline (CodePipeline + CodeDeploy) cutting release time 40%.
• Scaled high-traffic APIs on AWS (EC2/ASG/ELB); peak 15K RPS with < 200ms p95.

BorishDugdum LLC — Founder / Game & Engine Developer
Jul 2013 – Sep 2019

• Dark Flame, award-winning Metroidvania built from-scratch in C# (XNA/MonoGame); won Best Game Mechanic, OrlandoiX 2016.
• Wrote custom engine (physics, ECS, HLSL shaders); achieved locked 60 FPS on PC for low-end devices. Managed remote team of 6 artists/musicians.

United States Air Force — Non-Commissioned Officer (E-5)
Jan 2009 – Jul 2016

• Led 6-person security team; safeguarded frontline critical assets during overseas deployments.
• Awarded Commendation Medal, Achievement Medal (x3) and Fairchild Trophy 2010.
• Honorable Discharge

• Local LLM Voice Assistant (2024): Jetson AGX Orin + Whisper + Ollama + AML-s905X-CC for on-device voice translation (< 300 ms latency).
• AWS-hosted RAG Demo (2024): Deployed OpenWebUI + LlamaIndex + Ollama showcasing retrieval-augmented generation for exec demos.
• Stock Trading Bot (2022): TD Ameritrade WebSockets, automated ML-driven trades, 181% annualised back-test ROI.
• LED-Music Visualiser (2021): WS2812 PWM/DMA driver with C# wrapper; syncs pillows of LEDs to BPM in real-time.

• Best Game Mechanic – OrlandoiX 2016 (Dark Flame)
• Fairchild Trophy – Global Strike Challenge 2010