Summary
Aaron Smith is a software engineer with 14 years of experience who blends startup leadership and hands-on engineering, now at Meta after a multi-year run founding and scaling Virtual Field, a VR-based clinical diagnostics platform used for over 3 million exams. He has led product, engineering and CTO roles through acquisition, building production-grade systems in health tech and commercial real estate, and mentors through volunteer work teaching formerly incarcerated people to code. Comfortable across C++, Java, and full-stack systems from internships at Google to senior roles at Cadre, he combines product intuition with execution at scale. Based in New York, he brings an uncommon mix of clinical-device product experience and operator-level technical depth, with a track record of shipping trusted, widely used platforms.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Mathematics at Vanderbilt University