Resume

Adika Smith

Application Developer II - UPS International, Healthcare and Supply Chain Solutions

Cloud app platform engineering, DevOps, production operations, and technical leadership

Summary

Cloud app platform engineer with eight years of ownership across Azure application platforms, Firebase hosting patterns, production data operations, tenant migrations, networking redesigns, compliance workstreams, and operational automation.

  • Built a production operations toolbox with dry-run mode, backups, CSV evidence, and repeatable audit trails.
  • Led infrastructure planning for a tenant-to-tenant Azure migration across app, data, secret, network, and DevOps resources.
  • Redesigned AKS networking recommendations around IP conservation, private connectivity, and measured capacity.
  • Closed security and compliance workstreams by connecting engineering evidence to audit expectations.

Core Skills

Azure cloud platforms

Hands-on platform work across application hosting, private networking, identity, monitoring, and data services.

App ServiceAKSFirebase App HostingCosmos DBPostgreSQLStorageFront Door and WAFKey VaultPrivate EndpointsVirtual NetworksApplication InsightsService BusAzure DevOps

Automation and data operations

Production-safe scripts and runbooks for cleanup, migration, validation, reporting, and controlled cutovers.

C# and .NETPowerShellAzCopyKQLT-SQLPostgreSQL SQLCSV audit reportsDry-run workflowsBackup-first updates

Security and governance

Practical security posture work: secrets, certificates, vulnerability evidence, WAF tuning, and compliance artifacts.

Key Vault access modelsManaged identitiesDigital certificatesWAF exclusionsVulnerability scanning evidenceIncident response planningPrivacy assessment supportSonarQubeJFrog

Technical leadership

Bridge work across development, operations, networking, security, vendors, and business owners.

Migration planningChange sequencingOperational readinessRisk reductionStakeholder alignmentRunbook writingDecision recordsCost and capacity recommendations

Experience

2018-present

Application Developer II - UPS International, Healthcare and Supply Chain Solutions

Infrastructure, platform, and run-side engineering for brokerage and supply chain application platforms.

Selected Project Impact

2024-2025 - Cloud migration

Tenant-to-tenant Azure migration

Planned the infrastructure side of a large Azure migration across application services, databases, secrets, storage, networking, and DevOps workflows.

  • Reduced cutover risk by replicating the data tier before final handover.
  • Turned one migration into a reusable playbook for future cloud moves.

2025 - Kubernetes networking

AKS networking redesign under IP pressure

Developed a practical network redesign for AKS environments facing IP exhaustion and private connectivity routing constraints.

  • Produced a defensible recommendation tied to measured usage, not guesswork.
  • Reduced the risk of address-space exhaustion while preserving private service access.

2018-present - Automation

Production-safe operational script suite

Built a reusable C# and .NET script pattern for production data operations where every run needed evidence, reversibility, and clear operator intent.

  • Established a team pattern for safe production changes.
  • Created a durable audit trail for recurring operations.

2025 - Cloud cost

Cosmos DB cost and performance review

Profiled provisioned throughput against real consumption to separate true bottlenecks from over-provisioned containers.

  • Identified the true performance constraint instead of cutting blindly.
  • Created a specific savings path for low-utilization workloads.

2024-2025 - Security operations

Security, compliance, and WAF governance

Closed governance gaps by translating platform evidence into compliance artifacts and tuning edge protection under real traffic.

  • Closed multiple compliance flags with defensible evidence.
  • Reduced false positives while maintaining edge protection.

2024-2025 - Project recovery

Data retention migration after scope change

Replanned a storage and retention project after leadership changed the target architecture, preserving the useful work and keeping the deadline intact.

  • Closed the project under the revised design.
  • Reduced stale storage and audit exposure.

Education and Certifications

MBA and Computer Science

Business and technical education foundation for cloud, operations, and leadership work.

Microsoft Azure AZ-101

Azure Integration and Security certification, with continued growth toward administrator, architect, and DevOps tracks.