Adam Smith
Software Engineering Manager at Spotify
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAdam Smith is a Software Engineering Manager at Spotify with over a decade of experience crafting high-traffic, performance-conscious front-end applications across industries from fashion to finance. He began his career building core front-end skills at MailChimp and scaled into leadership roles at agencies and in-house teams, blending hands-on HTML/CSS/JavaScript expertise with PHP/SQL backend knowledge. At Spotify he moved from web developer to manager, focused on delivering delightful user experiences, optimizing load times, and maintaining designer intent across browsers. Known for calm, communicative leadership and an ability to juggle shifting priorities, he brings a practical, solution-oriented approach to tight deadlines. Beyond web engineering, he pursues creative technical interests in data visualization, audio synthesis, OSC/MIDI integration and modular synths, which inform his experimental, multidisciplinary take on product UI.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Database Design, Computer Science, Art History, HCI, Bachelor of Information Technology, Database Design, Computer Science, Art History, HCI at Clayton State University
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Github Skills (26)
two-dimensional8
vector-graphics8
animation7
rasterizer7
render7
renderer7
2d6
text-rendering6
svg6
api6
drawing6
javascript6
rendering6
rendering-engine5
canvas5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tranzfuse/jamnastik
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
browserjavascriptsequenceraudiostep-sequencer
tranzfuse/bootstrap_dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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