Ken Smith
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKen Smith is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 12+ years of leading startups and engineering teams. He grew a startup to $78 million in annual revenue and managed a 90-strong technologist organization, delivering successful mergers and international integrations. As CTO of Swyfft since 2015, he combines hands-on full-stack development with strategic architecture, product-driven leadership, and rapid execution in the insurance tech space. His career spans co-founding multiple startups (Payboard, Alanta, Zango) and senior technology roles at Mentor Graphics, bringing deep expertise across e-commerce, internet advertising, web conferencing, and mortgage banking, as well as a robust full-stack toolkit (C#/F#/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, Azure, Angular, ASP.NET MVC, SignalR, WCF, Entity Framework). Based in Woodinville, Washington, he holds an MA in Biblical and Theological Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary, reflecting a broad, disciplined approach to leadership and problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
20,365reputation
3.2mreached
341answers
122questions
typescript
top-5%
textarea
top-5%
wpf
top-5%
webrtc
top-5%
azure
top-5%
silverlight
top-1%
Github Skills (175)
typescript-definitions10
type-definitions10
javascript10
silverlight10
json10
typescript10
amd10
commonjs10
dts10
webpack10
on-demand10
dotnet9
git-lfs9
validation9
redis-client9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
smithkl42/AlantaMedia
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 day
smithkl42/DefinitelyTyped
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
javascripttype-definitionsdefinitionsjavascript-librariestypescript
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