Craig Smitham
Founder AI Product Engineer at Building something new
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Smitham is a founder and AI product engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native web and distributed systems, currently exploring AI-powered development from Dallas. He blends strategic leadership with deep technical craft, having led architecture and re‑architecture efforts for mission-critical systems (including real-time CAD UIs for air ambulance operations) and guided delivery practices at firms like Dialexa/IBM and PwC. A founding member of the GraphQL Foundation and former spec working group participant, he brings uncommon breadth across Azure, AWS, .NET (C#/F#), JVM, Node.js/TypeScript, React/Angular and more. Craig is equally comfortable mentoring teams and shipping production code, with a track record of improving developer experience through tools and libraries that boost quality and velocity. As CEO/Founder of AppkeepHQ and now building new AI products, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic engineering to move ideas into resilient, usable systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University Studies (Leadership Studies), Computer Science, Business, University Studies (Leadership Studies), Computer Science, Business at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (200)
angular-material10
javascript10
database10
sqlite10
teradata10
graphql-subscriptions10
graphql-js10
cordova10
falcor10
reference-implementation10
agenda10
redux10
oracle10
graphql10
reactive9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AppTonic/AppTonic
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:33 commits, 1 branch in 1 month
GraphZen/graphzen-dotnet
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 956 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year
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