C. Smith

AWS Deal Structuring

Amazon•  June 2022 - November 2023•  New York City

AWS Strategic Customer team negotiating $100M+ contracts; AWS Cloud Certified and Solutions Architect Certified

Sr. Solutions Engineer

TripleLift•  April 2019 - July 2020•  New York

Client-engaging solutions engineer; wrote wrappers to onboard new publishers to Ad Exchange (Java), scrapers for security and compliance checks/confirmations (Python), and data science playbooks for repeatable data analysis/reporting (Python/SQL/Airflow DAGs/Batch syntax) All the above engineering while serving as technical liason to external partner teams at Amazon Ad team and Google, among others

Partner Engineer

Clever•  April 2016 - November 2016•  San Francisco, CA

Product integrations; API migration & deprecation efforts; API Platform training 100's of developers in just months

Sr. Solutions Engineer

Kahuna•  September 2014 - January 2016•  Palo Alto, CA

20th hire at mobile marketing automation Sequoia startup Solutions Engineering - integrated gold-tier/strategic customers contributing to 10x ARR in 2015 - wrote integration specifications and trained external mobile developers on Kahuna SDK's and API's required for optimal use of our platform (Android Java, iOS Swift, Cordova Phonegap JS) - wrote Pythonic scripts for ETL ingestion of historic customer data to power timely and impactful integration launches (Yahoo/PlutoTV/NYT/Weather/Yelp....) Product Development: - wrote specifications for customer-led product development, synthesizing feedback and requirements from strategic customers - tested and launched API's powering Campaigns to 50M users/day - served as Product liaison and trainer for Sales and Marketing while the company had no designated Product team

Emory University

Business Administration, MS•  August 2020 - May 2022

MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University; served as VP of the Entrepreneurship & Venture Captial Club and won the Venture Capital Investment Competition; leveraged by 7 year Silicon Valley technical background to build a holistic understanding of our industry, focusing on financial value-drivers, exits and acquisitions

Stanford University, Stanford

Symbolic Systems, BS•  September 2008 - December 2012

B.S. in Symbolic Systems concentrating in Learning and Human-Centered Design; SymSys required mastery of computer science fundamentals, Object-Oriented Programming to data structures and algorithms, combined with Psychology and Philosophy courses rounding how humans and machines interact. Learned theory, learned usable code IRL in my career