Christopher聽Smothers
Creator & Maintainer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Smothers is a Clojure-focused co-founder and engineering leader with 13 years building collaborative, data-driven products and developer tools. He led development of Clubhouse's rich-text editor, studied CRDTs and distributed co-editing at Recurse Center, and previously co-founded Spacious (acquired by WeWork), blending product instincts with deep systems thinking. Now based in Germany, he鈥檚 working on local-first data projects in CLJ(S) that reflect his long-standing interest in offline-first collaborative systems. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and startup leadership, he brings full-stack experience from frontend Ruby/Backbone work to backend and tooling roles. Notably, his background combines formal study in visual storytelling with practical experimentation in interactive installations, which informs a human-centered approach to interface and collaboration design.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Independent Concentration - Visual Storytelling, B.A Independent Concentration - Visual Storytelling at Brown UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityGoucher CollegeStanford University
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Github Skills (75)
edn10
graph-database10
collaborative-editing10
react-state-management10
hook10
javascript10
datalog10
clojure10
datascript10
relational-databases10
database10
react-hooks10
typescript10
android10
mongodb10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
crs48/xNet
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:41 PRs, 370 pushes, 346 branches in 4 months
smothers/heroku-seoserver
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 28 days
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