Chris Smith
Rust Engineer at WalletConnect
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChris Smith is a Rust-focused full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, distributed systems, user-facing web apps, and embedded software. Currently at WalletConnect he maintains Rust libraries for smart accounts, runs on-call for production services, and performs protocol performance and cost optimizations. His background spans EV charger integrations for the DOE, threshold-crypto libraries for distributed key management, and high-impact fundraising infrastructure that processed tens of millions in donations. An avid practical contributor, he’s improved UI, testing, and canary timing observability for an onchain app toolkit on GitHub—demonstrating a blend of frontend polish and backend reliability. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs formal training in computer software engineering with hands-on DevOps and microservice architecture experience.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (28)
uitest10
javascript10
typescript10
playwright-test10
typescript-types10
playwright10
typescripts10
ui-testing10
react10
daap9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
walletconnect9
integrations8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
reown-com/appkit
May 2023 - Mar 2025
The full stack toolkit to build onchain app UX
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:132 reviews, 104 PRs, 315 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the UI and testing aspects of the project, specifically within the "apps/laboratory" directory, which is likely focused on testing and demonstrating the functionality of the "appkit" toolkit. They fixed UI-related issues, improved UI tests, and added detailed timing logs for canary tests, which are used to monitor the performance of the application. These changes involved modifications to React components, test files, and configuration files. The user also introduced the "dogfooding" button and updated the page URL to display the current page.
integrationreactwidgetproviderwallets
neonorb/idea-settings
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:137 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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