Christopher Smith
Founder And President at The Giraffe Company
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Smith is a serial founder and technology leader with over two decades of experience building AI-enabled platforms, digital agencies, and cross-organizational integrations. He currently leads The Giraffe Company, applying reinforcement learning and generative AI to autonomous marketing, while also co-founding ventures focused on residential energy and mental-health transitions—bringing product, go-to-market, and technical leadership into each effort. Chris has shepherded startups to exit, led M&A integrations, and embedded automated QA and delivery practices in complex government programs, demonstrating a rare blend of entrepreneurial vision and delivery rigor. A confident executive speaker and teacher, he helps C-suite teams adopt AI responsibly and translate technical possibilities into measurable revenue and operational changes. Based in Toronto, he pairs formal executive education from Harvard and Cornell with hands-on engineering instincts, and is driven by a belief that collective intelligence is the engine for scalable, ethical innovation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Specializations in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Strategy, and Digital Transformation & AI, Specializations in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Strategy, and Digital Transformation & AI at Harvard Business School OnlineCertificates of Executive Leadership and Performance Leadership, Certificates of Executive Leadership and Performance Leadership at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Commerce at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (24)
pdf10
odt9
rtf9
msword9
docx9
php9
doc9
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php-library9
libreoffice-writer9
ansible-role8
lamp8
php-fpm8
lemp7
database6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OPIN-DRUPAL/ansible-role-drupal
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
OPIN-CHECKPOINT/checkpoint
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 month
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