Brian Smith
Staff Product Manager at Mozilla
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBrian Smith is a Staff Product Manager at Mozilla with seven years of experience blending developer-focused product, technical writing, and engineering. He has led MDN Web Docs content and developer experience efforts that reach millions monthly, and now focuses on building Firefox's paid enterprise support and commercial offerings. Equally comfortable in code and prose, he contributes to front-end MDN examples and low-level back-end work—most notably enhancing Postgres wire protocol support in the high-performance QuestDB time-series database. Based in Berlin, he brings a developer-centric approach to product strategy, documentation, and community-driven open source. A former Head of Content and technical writer, Brian pairs pragmatic engineering chops with a background in computer music that fuels creative problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Computer Music, Master of Arts (M.A.), Computer Music at Maynooth University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
postgresql10
canvas10
css10
formatting10
databases10
text-formatting10
dom-manipulation10
web-audio-api10
front-end-development10
sql10
html10
rust10
database10
machine-learning9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/learning-area
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
GitHub repo for the MDN Learning Area.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 81 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the front-end development of the MDN Learning Area repository. Their work involved modifying and improving existing HTML and CSS files, including the addition of margins to forms, fixing typos, and correcting semantic issues. The user also focused on updating the HTML structure and styling of web pages, ensuring improved code formatting and overall readability, as demonstrated in commit messages like "fix(forms): add margin to form for readability" and "chore(html): use const, format code example". Furthermore, the user added improvements to accessibility and functionality of the existing examples.
reactlearning-jsmdn-docsmdnlearning-to-code
mdn/webaudio-examples
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 29 commits, 14 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily made formatting changes across multiple CSS files within the repository. These changes used Prettier for code styling consistency. The files modified include style definitions for various example interfaces. These changes ensure code readability and maintainability for the front-end portion of the Web Audio API examples.
javascriptaudioweb-audiomdnwebaudio-api
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