Andrew Smiley
Software Engineer at User Research International
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Smiley is a versatile software engineer and systems architect with 14 years of experience building full-stack web applications, embedded firmware, and IoT products from prototype to production. As CTO and co-founder of a wearable sleep-tech startup he led hardware schematics, >10k lines of embedded C firmware, cloud APIs, and cross-platform apps, demonstrating rare fluency across electronics, firmware, backend services, and mobile/desktop clients. Currently at User Research International, he combines hands-on engineering with product-minded systems design and a knack for quickly absorbing domain-specific knowledge. He has a track record winning and delivering custom web projects for nonprofits and managing small engineering teams, hiring, and production logistics. Based in San Diego, he’s equally likely to be debugging signal processing code as playing piano or building something outdoorsy—bringing both technical depth and an inventor’s curiosity to new IoT and hardware-software challenges.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Mathematics (minor), Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Mathematics (minor) at University of Florida
Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
material-ui10
forestry10
browser10
html10
nodejs10
cordova10
css10
oracle10
orm10
validate10
mysql10
chrome10
postgresql10
javascript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jayalfredprufrock/dynamo-box
May 2023 - Mar 2025
TypeBox based data mapper for working with DynamoDb in a strongly-typed way.
Contributions:34 PRs, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
jayalfredprufrock/mongoes
May 2023 - Mar 2025
TypeScript library for converting MongoDB queries to equivalent ElasticSearch DSL queries
Contributions:23 PRs, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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