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Jodi Smit

@jodismit

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Senior L5 Cloud Engineer | AWS Kinesis & MSK SME | Apache Kafka | Managed Flink

South Africa

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I am a Senior L5 Cloud Engineer at AWS, specialising in Amazon Kinesis, with dual SME accreditations in Kinesis and MSK. I also have experience with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, contributing to global service improvements, solving complex streaming challenges and influencing engineering priorities.

My interests include streaming infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud architecture and platform engineering. I am looking to bring my expertise to global engineering teams working on large-scale technology platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Cloud Support Engineer

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Amazon Web Services

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 9 months)

Senior L5 Streaming Engineer specialising in Amazon Kinesis, with expertise in Amazon MSK and Managed Flink. Focused on large-scale streaming architectures, performance and reliability improvements, solving complex technical challenges, and influencing global service engineering initiatives.

Junior First Line Analyst

Computacenter

May 2021 - Jan 2022 (8 months)

Logged ticket information and provided technical support to end-users. Managed mailbox maintenance and tagging, and identified, diagnosed, and troubleshot technical issues.

Technical Support Troubleshooting Communication Skills Mailbox Management