Bret Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
Riverton, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBret Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems, currently contributing to Disney Streaming after shaping streaming data platforms at Pluralsight. He brings deep Scala expertise and a functional programming mindset, favoring referential transparency to produce reliable, maintainable services at scale. His background includes hands-on roles across startups and mid-size teams where he delivered production-grade APIs and data infrastructure. Based in Riverton, Utah, Bret combines pragmatic engineering with a preference for elegant, type-safe solutions that reduce runtime surprises. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful problem solver who translates functional theory into practical system improvements. Outside work he’s likely to champion FP patterns and tooling that improve developer ergonomics and code quality.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, German
Github Skills (46)
transport10
data-replication10
scalajs10
generic-programming10
streaming10
scala9
akka9
tagless-final9
kafka9
functional-programming9
real-time-data9
data-streams8
replication8
zio8
transition7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bretrbs/fpinscala
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Code, exercises, answers, and hints to go along with the book "Functional Programming in Scala"
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
gleamfunctional-programmingdeclarative-programmingcode-exercisesscalajs
bretrbs/PairProgrammingProjects
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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