Brandon Smith
Principal Software Engineer at Relay
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Smith is a Senior Software Architect with 18 years of experience designing and delivering user-facing products and cloud-native systems from concept through acquisition. Based in Raleigh, NC, he has led architecture and engineering teams through growth and M&A transitions at Republic Wireless/Relay and Bandwidth, bringing product-focused technical leadership to telecom and communications platforms. His background spans enterprise Java and middleware at IBM to modern mobile and hosted telephony services, combining deep systems architecture with pragmatic delivery practices. He blends formal process knowledge from CMU (TSP/PSP, CMMI) with agile execution, helping teams prioritize investments and scope work effectively. Known for shepherding products through complex integrations and corporate change, he excels at translating business needs into resilient, scalable architectures. Beyond hands-on coding and architecture, he has a track record of mentoring engineers and running workshops to raise team capability.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Management Information Systems, General, Master of Engineering - MEng, Management Information Systems, General at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Zulu
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Github Skills (122)
react-native-app10
magic-numbers10
firebase10
relay10
javascript10
push-notifications10
sdk10
html10
electron10
crashlytics10
installer10
nodejs-library10
firestore10
nodejs10
buffer10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
relaypro/relay-cli
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Use the Relay CLI to register workflows on your Relay devices and apps.
Contributions:42 reviews, 146 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 9 months
clirelayrelay-prosdk
BrandonSmith/incentivo
Jun 2008 - Sep 2008
Contributions:50 commits in 2 months
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