About Me
Engineering Philosophy
I build systems with a bias toward:
- simplicity over unnecessary abstraction
- observability over guesswork
- reliability over novelty
- open standards over vendor lock-in
- automation over repetition
- least privilege over implicit trust
- repairability over disposability
- clear documentation over tribal knowledge
Good infrastructure should be understandable under stress. Good security should reduce assumptions. Good automation should make systems easier to reason about, not harder.
Background
I am a senior systems and infrastructure engineer with more than 20 years of experience across software development, Linux systems administration, infrastructure engineering, networking, automation, and security-focused systems design.
My work spans professional production environments and personal research infrastructure. I enjoy building practical systems, studying how they fail, and improving them until they are simpler, safer, and more reliable.
I am especially interested in roles involving:
- infrastructure engineering
- Linux systems engineering
- platform engineering
- security engineering
- SRE / reliability engineering
- open-source infrastructure
- self-hosted and privacy-respecting systems
- low-level systems and networking
Contact
If you are interested in collaborating on projects, have any interesting employment opportunities, or just want to say hello, please feel free to reach me via any of the means below:
| helamonster@gmail.com | |
| Website | https://jeremybryansmith.com |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/helamonster/ | |
| GitHub | https://github.com/helamonster |
| Resume | View My Resume [PDF] |