Damien Smrt

Platform Engineer, DevSecOps Leader, and AWS Specialist

I'm Damien, a senior engineering leader with 18+ years architecting secure, scalable AWS systems. I specialize in platform engineering, DevSecOps enablement, identity & API security, and enterprise CI/CD standardization. Currently, I'm building enterprise-scale infrastructure and tooling at HCSC.

Strategic Impact

Proven ability to influence cross-organization engineering practices, establish secure delivery patterns, and design reusable systems that accelerate development velocity while improving compliance and reliability.

Key Achievements

  • Architected enterprise GitOps authentication framework using AWS API Gateway
  • Built organization-wide CI/CD platform standardization with GitHub Actions
  • Authored open-source SAML plugins with 100k+ installations
  • Designed multi-tenant SaaS authentication & authorization frameworks
  • Led DevSecOps initiatives across healthcare engineering organizations

Community Leadership

Organizer – ServerlessDays Denver
Coordinate speakers and sponsorships, foster regional cloud engineering community, and advocate serverless and modern cloud patterns.

Work

  1. Company
    Health Care Service Company
    Role
    Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
    Date
  2. Company
    TekSystems (Supporting Comcast)
    Role
    Cloud Engineer III
    Date
  3. Company
    Flipbox Digital
    Role
    Senior Software Engineer & DevOps Lead
    Date
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Certifications

  • 7x AWS Certifications
  • GitHub Advanced Security