Brian Smith
Sportscar Racing Performance Engineer at General Motors
Berkley, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Smith is a sportscar racing performance engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in vehicle dynamics, motorsports programs, and simulation development. He has driven racecar and production program performance at Ford and now General Motors, leading chassis and vehicle dynamics work for customer racecars, launch activities, and simulator-based training using tools like VI-CarRealTime, CarSim, and MATLAB. Brian combines on-track test leadership with prototyping, DOE automation (Excel VBA + VCRt), and data-driven diagnostics—skills honed from Formula SAE leadership to full-motion simulator support. Based in Berkley, Michigan, he pairs practical troubleshooting across brake, powertrain and control systems with simulation-led optimization, and often bridges supplier, test, and production teams to resolve complex vehicle issues. Notably, he has built custom tire modeling and full-vehicle simulation workflows that accelerate lap-time development and resource allocation.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering - MSE, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering - MSE, Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan-DearbornBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (63)
kubernetes10
docker10
parser10
router10
vector10
go10
pipeline10
observability9
rancher9
scheduling9
high-performance9
stream-processing9
rust9
orchestration8
cattle8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
akabdog/scripts
Dec 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Moogsoft/vector
Dec 2021 - Oct 2024
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Contributions:71 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pipelinedata-observabilityobservabilityperformancedata-pipeline
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