Josh Smith
Advisory Solutions Architect at MongoDB
Olathe, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Smith is an Advisory Solutions Architect with 10+ years of leadership in software and architecture, currently advising at MongoDB after progressing from Senior Solutions Architect. He has led architecture and engineering teams across automotive retail, aviation, analytics, and agritech—most recently shaping VinConnect Sales CRM and Accelerate digital retailing at Cox Automotive. A former founder and early big-data architect, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on system design to deliver cloud-forward solutions and scalable document and data platforms. Josh pairs disciplined team-building and coding standards with a pragmatic focus on solving real user problems, informed by a background that includes military systems work and entrepreneurship. Based in Olathe, Kansas, he’s driven by a belief that software should make human lives better and by a quiet track record of introducing new technologies and cloud strategies where they matter most.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Management, BS Business Management at University of PhoenixPolitical Science, Political Science at Westminster College (MO)DeSoto High School
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Github Skills (81)
log4j10
backend10
api10
jvm10
java10
logger10
logging10
syslog10
atlas9
spring-data9
spring9
apache9
spring-boot9
mongodb9
rest8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jesmith17/chaos_api
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Rails API that intentionally gives bad responses. Used for testing developers awareness of defensive programming
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
defensive-programmingrails-apitesting
jesmith17/mongodb-sprint-zero
Feb 2023 - Aug 2025
Contains reusable code artifacts that can be used in Sprint Zero engagements
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
codeartifact
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