Clyde Smets
Software Engineer at FirstLook.gg
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolClyde Smets is a versatile software engineer and solo game developer from Queensland with 11 years of experience building full-stack products, games, and developer-facing tooling. He has delivered measurable business impact at scale—driving upsell initiatives and incident management at Atlassian and accelerating feature parity and Server-Driven UI architecture at Expedia. Comfortable across web, mobile, backend, and game development, Clyde ships production games on Steam and maintains a public portfolio and code lab on his site and GitHub. He’s practiced in migrating monoliths to Kotlin microservices, designing GraphQL schemas for reusable client-driven components, and restoring developer confidence through improved monitoring and testing. Known for turning design and UX collaboration into tangible product outcomes, he also brings a creative background in 3D and animation that informs his game and UI work. Outside of teams, he publishes experiments and tools publicly, signaling a curiosity-driven approach to engineering and game design.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment Animation, Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment Animation at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (24)
architecture10
sdui10
android9
react9
frontend9
graphql9
user-interface8
docz7
js7
documentation6
mdx6
gatsby6
typescript5
metalsmith5
zero-configuration4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
csmets/writings
Jan 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
csmets/IP-Daily-Digest
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:443 commits, 558 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
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