Christian Smith
Software Engineering Manager at Library Innovation Lab @ Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Smith is a software engineering manager and founder with 15 years of experience building identity, cryptography, and library technologies at the intersection of research and product. After open-source cryptography work led to academic collaborations and roles at MIT, he went on to found Anvil Research and Stranger Labs, bringing protocol-level thinking to practical auth and identity infrastructure. Now leading engineering at Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab, he combines hands-on technical leadership with a passion for inventing tools that expand access to justice and modernize library systems. His background in music and early exposure to the dotcom-era disruption of the music industry gives him an unusual blend of creative empathy and commercial insight when designing user-centered systems. He’s comfortable translating standards and academic research into reliable production software and cultivating open-source communities around those efforts.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Performance Composition Arranging, Performance Composition Arranging at Berklee College of MusicE-Commerce, E-Commerce at Cambridge College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
authentication10
auth10
validation10
jwt10
authenticate10
mixins10
authorization10
angularjs10
nodejs10
webcrypto10
objectionjs10
anvil10
forms10
google-api-client10
authorization-server10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
anvilresearch/jwa
Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
javascriptjson
christiansmith/norq
Apr 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:66 commits in 3 months
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