Bennett Smith
Principle Software Engineer at iOS Weekend
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBennett Smith is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of focused experience building cross-platform desktop, mobile and distributed systems and a career that stretches back to embedded and DSP work in the late 1980s. He combines deep language fluency in C/C++, C#, and Objective-C with hands-on framework and architecture work across Cocoa/UIKit, Qt, MFC and server-side stacks, and currently leads platform efforts at Quanata. A serial startup founder and long-running iOS instructor, he pairs pragmatic teaching and rapid technology adoption with production-grade engineering. Bennett contributes to open-source observability tooling—helping stabilize the OpenTelemetry Swift exporter and Datadog integrations—underscoring his attention to robustness and telemetry. Outside of code he’s an avid hiker and mountain biker, a pattern that mirrors his preference for tackling complex technical terrain end-to-end.
13 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Systems Option, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Systems Option at California State University, Chico
German
Stackoverflow
501reputation
41kreached
8answers
2questions
protocol-buffers
top-5%
Github Skills (13)
testing10
opentelemetry10
uitest10
swift10
xctest10
protocol-buffers9
grpc9
api8
apidoc8
ios7
openid6
llvm-clang6
dylib6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-swift
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
OpenTelemetry API for Swift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 25 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bennett primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to the OpenTelemetry API for Swift. Their contributions addressed a sysctl error, and they merged branches, indicating involvement in integrating changes and resolving issues. They also worked on test-related fixes and configurations to improve the stability and functionality of the codebase, working on tests in the persistence exporter area. The user also made improvements in the Datadog exporter.
apitracingswiftopentelemetry-apiopentelemetry
BlueOwlOpenSource/iSpyChallenge
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
Starting point for iSpy Challenge
Contributions:21 reviews, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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