Jake Smith is an accomplished solution and enterprise architect having worked in the trenched for 25+ years. When not working in technology, he is making things out of Respberry Pis and wood or boating in beautiful South Florida and the Florida Keys on his 34 foot motorboat.

Jake's Career has spanned numerous technologies and roles, with emphasis on designing high-performing and innovative solutions that align with the strategic initiatives of his employers or clients. Jake is an architect that still codes every day. He has a unique capability to dig into the weeds, but also abstract and align things at an enterprise level.

Jake has two undergraduate degrees - one in Political Science and one in Computer Science, as well as an MBA from the University of Florida. He is the father of a brilliant and lovely daughter currently attending the University of Chicago (she gets it from her mother).