Brian Smith
Principal Software Engineer at Posit PBC
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Smith is a Principal Software Engineer in San Diego with 17 years of experience building and scaling high-traffic web platforms. He co-founded and served as CTO of Estimize, taking a prototype to a profitable, venture-backed company and owning architecture, full-stack development, devops, and engineering leadership. Before that he scaled KidZui’s platform to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent users and billions of monthly requests, and has deep hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and agile practices. Now at Posit PBC he focuses on architectural excellence and delivery across product and engineering teams, combining entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering. He pairs strategic leadership with day-to-day coding and mentoring, and is particularly skilled at turning ambiguous product hypotheses into reliable, production-ready systems.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Mathematics, BS Computer Science and Mathematics at Santa Clara University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
command-line-interface10
rstudio-connect10
docker-image9
r9
rstudio9
jupyter-notebook9
rmarkdown9
julia8
mongodb8
helm7
gnome7
ruby-on-rails6
configurations6
timeout6
tostring6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Lytol/rbenv
May 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 9 months
Lytol/Mongo.jl
Feb 2013 - Nov 2013
Mongo bindings for the Julia programming language
Contributions:24 commits, 1 comment in 9 months
juliamongodbprogramming-language
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