Cory Smith
Co-Founder & CTO at Bullish Ventures
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolCory Smith is a technical entrepreneur and seasoned engineering leader with 15 years building delightful product experiences across web, mobile and blockchain. As Co-Founder and CTO of Bidali he’s focused on reimagining payments and custody with distributed ledger tech to reduce friction, fraud and fees at global scale. He founded and led multiple product shops (Bullish Ventures, Smixx) that rapidly turn validated ideas into production-grade web and mobile MVPs, blending UX-first design with pragmatic engineering. Cory is an active open-source contributor and FeathersJS core team member who has deep backend experience in authentication, real-time APIs and token handling as well as cross-platform React Native libraries. Based in Calgary, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic product leadership and a willingness to dive into unfamiliar tech stacks to solve hard problems. Outside the usual CTO remit, he’s repeatedly taken native iOS/Android integrations from prototype to production, showing a rare full-stack-mobile-to-infrastructure fluency.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Technology Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer Systems Technology Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Grande Prairie Regional CollegeBachelor of Applied Information Technology Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Information Technology Software Engineering at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
testing10
component-development10
crashlytics10
user-authentication10
authentication10
react-native-component10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
jwt10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
corymsmith/react-native-icons
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Quick and easy icons in React Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:119 commits, 42 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the development of a React Native component library focused on providing quick and easy icon implementations. Their work involved modifying the component's structure, transitioning from an object-based props format to individual props for name, size, and color. Further contributions included implementing a custom tab bar with icon font support, badge values, and color theming, and also adding various examples of social sign-in buttons within the application. The user also upgraded the project dependencies to align with newer versions of React Native.
react-native
corymsmith/react-native-fabric
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
A React Native library for Fabric, Crashlytics and Answers
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:5 releases, 96 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on implementing and improving the React Native integration with the Crashlytics and Answers SDKs. They added functionality for logging events, user information, and custom attributes across both iOS and Android platforms. The commits showcase the adaptation of existing native iOS code and the parallel creation of Android-compatible implementations for Crashlytics features. They addressed platform-specific number conversions, null checks, and general platform compatibility.
crashlyticsreact-native-libraryfabricreact-native
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