Bryan Smith
Engineering Manager at Tava Health
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Smith is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling product teams and software across startups and enterprise environments from Salt Lake City. He blends hands-on architecture and full-stack implementation (React, TypeScript, Elixir, Postgres, Kafka) with people-first leadership—setting feedback and accountability processes that cut sprint rollovers and helped mid-level engineers advance to senior and management roles. Bryan has led critical product initiatives like onboarding and messaging features that measurably improved user activation and response rates, and he’s comfortable working directly with exec-level stakeholders. He also has an entrepreneurial streak as the owner of a small business and a history of creating new programs and online courses as a lead instructor, which speaks to his strength in curriculum, mentorship, and scaling teams. Colleagues consistently rate him highly for clarity and dependability, and he favors practical process changes that drive engineering velocity and cross-team alignment. Outside of management he still “sling[s] some code,” maintaining a balance of technical craft and people leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
crud9
fundamentals8
nodejs7
javascript7
mongodb6
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database5
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BryanSmith33/personal-site
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 198 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
DevMountain/basecamp-assessment-i
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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