Dorian Smiley
CTO And Co-founder at CodeStrap
Laguna Niguel, California, United States
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Top SchoolDorian Smiley is a seasoned technology leader and startup builder with over 20 years of experience and a dozen years of focused hands-on engineering and management across cloud-native architectures, automation, and DevOps. As CTO and co-founder of CodeStrap and former VP of Technology at Brainly and Palantir alliance lead at PwC, he blends product-minded leadership with deep technical execution—often coding 50–70% of the time while hiring and scaling teams. He has a track record of delivering mission-critical platforms (from web-based InDesign PWAs used by Disney and Adobe to cloud document capture and ETL systems) and building CI/CD, GitOps, and data pipelines. Based in Laguna Niguel, CA, he’s passionate about education technology and has repeatedly turned creative engineering into commercial products and enterprise solutions. Less obvious: he moves comfortably between low-level system design and outward-facing pre-sales and strategy, a habit forged by founding startups and pitching investors early in his career.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree, Associates Degree at Cal State University
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Github Skills (90)
composition10
javascript10
stackblitz10
lotus10
typescript10
webcontainer10
currying10
facebook10
type-check9
browser9
superset9
testing9
web-components9
typechecker9
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
doriansmiley/codestrap-programs
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Curriculum for entering apprenticeships in software engineering.
Contributions:2 releases, 60 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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doriansmiley/codestrap
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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