Connor Smith
Research Program Manager at Constellation Institute
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Smith is a Research Program Manager with 12 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently focused on aligning AI research efforts to reduce risks and maximize societal benefit. He transitioned from full‑stack software engineering and engineering management roles—covering DevOps/SRE, open-source maintenance, hiring, and project delivery—into program management at organizations working on AI safety. Known for clear written and verbal communication and a "firefighter" disposition, he combines pragmatism, ownership, and compassion to help teams get stuff done and keep people well. With a B.S. in Computer Engineering, he brings a systems-level perspective informed by work in SoC design, real‑time systems, and cloud software, which helps him bridge deep technical details and strategic research priorities.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
English
Github Skills (63)
kubernetes10
lattice10
controller10
netlify10
dispatcher10
reconciliation10
capability10
wasmer10
automaton10
pcf10
docusaurus10
wasmtime10
rust10
webassembly10
cloud-native10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cosmonic/awesome-cosmonic
Oct 2022 - Nov 2023
Examples, inspiration, and templates for your ideas. This repository also includes source code for the Examples section on https://cosmonic.com/docs/category/examples
Contributions:19 reviews, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
demo-apptemplatecategorytlawasmcloud
connorsmith256/wasmCloud
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
Project homepage. wasmCloud allows for simple, secure, distributed application development using WebAssembly actors and capability providers.
Contributions:164 pushes, 228 branches, 3 tags in 9 months
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