Andrew Smith
Director, SVP, Head Of Investor Relations And Corporate Strategy
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Smith is a strategic leader with over a decade at Virtu Financial, driving business development, corporate strategy, and investor relations through the firm’s IPO and global market expansion. He combines deep market-structure expertise across FX, equities, and futures with hands-on evaluation of trading technologies and regulatory impacts to scale customized liquidity solutions and partner ecosystems. Unusually for a senior business executive, he is also an active Bitcoin researcher and back-end contributor to Bitcoin Core, having implemented mempool tracepoints and monitoring tooling that reflect system-level programming chops. Based in Texas, he blends an accounting background with consulting and product operations experience to translate complex market mechanics into clear investor and partner narratives.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Accounting, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Accounting at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (13)
bitcoin10
c-language10
bitcoins10
cprogramming-language10
bcc10
python10
ebpf10
cryptography9
testing9
cryptocurrency9
debug8
debugging8
p2p8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 3 PRs, 44 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew implemented and enhanced tracepoints for Bitcoin Core's mempool, adding functionality to monitor events such as transaction additions, removals, replacements, and rejections. This involved writing C code within the BPF framework to capture and process mempool data. They also wrote Python scripts utilizing the BCC library to create a monitoring dashboard and testing of the tracepoints to ensure the correct information gets outputted, demonstrating strong skills in system-level programming and event-driven architectures.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
virtu/p2p-crawler
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Crawler for Bitcoin's P2P network.
Contributions:3 reviews, 54 PRs, 151 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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