Thank you for visiting my site! My name is Jason Smith but many people call me “Jay”. I respond to either so don’t get too hung up on that.

I am currently a Sr. Customer Engineer – Application Ecoystem (AppEco) Specialist at Google Cloud. That means that I help customers and users find a way to move from their legacy monolithic architectures to a more microservices based architecture. I am also doing a 20% Project as a Serverless Outbound Product Manager (OPM) right now.

I am involved with the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) and am a co-lead for the Cloud Native San Francisco Community as am an organizer for 2025 KCD San Francisco Bay Area.

I am a native Texan but now I reside in the SF Bay Area. When I am not doing tech stuff, I enjoy traveling, skiing, hiking, running, pub trivia, gaming (JRPGs maninly), and volunteering and advocating for inclusion and belonging in the community.