Garrett Smith is senior architect at CloudBees, the Jenkins company. Garrett specializes in distributed systems and reliable software. His programming tool of choice for systems programming is Erlang, a high productivity functional language specializing in concurrency and reliability. Garrett is an Erlang instructor and the author of e2, a library that accelerates correct Erlang/OTP programming. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences world wide including OSCON, GOTO, Code Mesh, Strange Loop, and Lamba Jam.

Garrett is also known for his videos Erlang The Movie II The Sequel and MongoDb is Web Scale.