Chris Smothers
Co-founder at Something new
Germany
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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’s 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.
13 years of coding experience
9 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 (101)
realtime10
edn10
graph-database10
react-state-management10
hook10
javascript10
datalog10
clojure10
datascript10
pouchdb10
relational-databases10
database10
causal10
react-hooks10
typescript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
becomingbabyman/cause
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
An EDN-like CRDT (Causal Tree) for Clojure & ClojureScript that automatically tracks history and resolves conflicts.
Contributions:75 commits, 16 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 1 month
causal-treep2pcausalconflict-resolutionconflicts
homebaseio/datalog-console
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Administration UI for Datascript, Datahike, and other Datalog databases
Contributions:59 reviews, 77 commits, 16 PRs in 7 months
datahikeadministrationdatascriptjavascriptdatabases
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