Alan Smithee
Chief Technology Officer at Zenta
Växjö, Kronoberg County, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarAlan Smithee is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer based in Växjö, Sweden, with 12 years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience. He combines strategic technology direction with active engineering contributions, notably improving backend Cardano transaction handling and Plutus integrations in the open-source lucid library. Equally comfortable on the front end, he has contributed UX and editor enhancements to the widely used three.js project, fixing examples and adding editor shortcuts and scene serialization. As CTO at Zenta, he bridges product and engineering, shipping practical solutions that balance developer ergonomics and robust blockchain integrations. His profile reflects a blend of systems-level thinking and attention to detail—comfortable refactoring low-level type/address logic as well as polishing user-facing documentation and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
deno10
javascript10
typescript10
cardano10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
webgl9
ui-design9
blockchain9
3d9
canvas8
apidoc8
api8
testing7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
spacebudz/lucid
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Lucid is a library designed to simplify creating Cardano transactions and writing off-chain code for Plutus contracts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the project, specifically related to Cardano transaction handling and Plutus contract interactions. Their contributions included bug fixes addressing issues with address selection and type definitions, as well as implementing new features to handle unused addresses. The changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's core purpose.
solanaethereumnode-jsjavascriptblockchain
mrdoob/three.js
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
JavaScript 3D Library.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 170 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the user interface and documentation aspects of the three.js library. They corrected misleading information in the "creating a scene" example, updated the example, and added keyboard shortcuts to the editor interface. They also fixed incorrect shortcut key assignments on buttons and added scene fog JSON serialization and parsing.
virtual-realitysvgwebglcanvasjavascript
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