Blain Smith
Founding Member at rblgk, LLC
United States
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Top SchoolBlain Smith is a seasoned software engineer and founding technologist with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, networking, and responsive web interfaces across startups and established tech firms. He has held senior and staff engineering roles at companies such as ngrok, Twitter, and runZero, and currently leads initiatives as a founding member of Limeleaf Worker Collective while running his own firm, rblgk, LLC. Blain combines systems-level expertise in networking and telemetry with front-end polish—he has contributed UI and responsiveness improvements to the popular Express.js website. His background spans security research, platform engineering, and leadership positions including CTO and lead engineer roles, demonstrating an ability to move between hands-on implementation and strategic architecture. He earned graduate-level computer science training at Georgia Tech and brings an entrepreneur’s pragmatism to shipping reliable, production-grade software. An understated strength is his pattern of improving developer-facing UX in core infrastructure projects, smoothing rough edges that help teams and users alike.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Empire State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHarvard UniversityBentley UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
responsiveness10
front-end-development10
website-development9
expressjs9
website-design9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
expressjs/expressjs.com
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
The Express.js Website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Blain primarily focused on improving the user interface and responsiveness of the Express.js website. Their commits addressed menu visibility, scrollbar behavior, and the overall height and layout of the menu elements. They implemented changes to CSS and JavaScript files to adjust the website's design and ensure a more polished user experience, including responsive adjustments on window resize and load events.
javascriptnodejsexpressjsexpress
blainsmith/talks
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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