Jennifer Smith

Cloud/infrastructure architect, 25 years enterprise. Now solo: I run production systems on Cloudflare Workers + D1 for ~$0/month and write about what breaks. Azure, VMware exits, one-person DevOps.

Ballwin, MO Joined on Jul 30, 2026 https://jenatechnologies.com/

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Jennifer Smith

Aug 10

I set out to climb "graph engineering." It was the ladder I'd been standing on for 25 years.

#ai #architecture #career #devjourney

7 min read

Jennifer Smith

Aug 5

I was released from the role of a lifetime. So I built an AI estate that runs while I sleep.

#ai #career #automation #devjourney

18 min read

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Jennifer Smith

Aug 2

I Gave an AI Agent Nightly Merge Rights to Every Repo I Own (With a Budget and a Kill Switch)

#ai #automation #github #devops

6 min read

Jennifer Smith

Jul 30

A Dead-Man's Switch for Scheduled Jobs (Because Silent Failures Rot Data)

#devops #serverless #cloudflare #monitoring

3 min read

Jennifer Smith

Jul 30

My Auto-Publish Pipeline Shipped a Two-Year-Old News Story. Here's the Fix — All Three Layers of It.

#ai #automation #serverless #postmortem

4 min read

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I set out to climb "graph engineering." It was the ladder I'd been standing on for 25 years.

I was released from the role of a lifetime. So I built an AI estate that runs while I sleep.

Want to connect with Jennifer Smith?

I Gave an AI Agent Nightly Merge Rights to Every Repo I Own (With a Budget and a Kill Switch)

A Dead-Man's Switch for Scheduled Jobs (Because Silent Failures Rot Data)

My Auto-Publish Pipeline Shipped a Two-Year-Old News Story. Here's the Fix — All Three Layers of It.