Adam Smith
Computer Scientist at Adobe
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Smith is a versatile computer scientist and full-stack engineer with 13 years of experience building web, desktop, and fintech systems across companies from startups to Adobe. He has shipped large-scale user-facing work at Dropbox—leading a migration from legacy native UI to a modern React stack—and built low-level fintech tooling at Jane Street using OCaml and C. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, Qt, Objective-C, Win32 and more, he favors elegant, robust solutions and teams that prioritize code quality and reliability. His background combines practical product impact (frontend and backend at Etsy, internal tooling) with deep systems work (bindings, data pipelines, desktop integration). Now based in Victoria, BC, he brings both cross-disciplinary collaboration and mentorship experience, having guided interns and new hires. Notably, he blends academic rigor from a CS master’s with a humanities foundation in philosophy, informing thoughtful engineering tradeoffs.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Literary Studies, Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Literary Studies at University of TorontoMaster's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
English, French, German, Japanese
Github Skills (144)
instagram10
uploader10
encoding10
resumable10
javascript10
modular10
rendering10
tus10
reducer10
immutables10
dog10
redux10
renderer10
glsl9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adamsmasher/fracide-mapeditor
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:205 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
adamsmasher/gbsound
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 89 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
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