Ethan Smith is a senior software engineering manager with a decade of experience leading full-stack and mobile teams to deliver learning and enterprise products at scale. He combines hands-on technical fluency—from MEAN and Go to AWS and Kubernetes—with a strong focus on people and process, having guided major migrations (Rally to Jira, native mobile to cross-platform) and built automations and dashboards that measurably improved engineering velocity. Known for cultivating trust, autonomy, and continuous improvement, he coaches new managers, runs peer-led leadership groups, and champions data-driven retrospectives and experiments. He’s comfortable navigating change management and operational trade-offs while translating stakeholder needs into prioritized roadmaps. Based in Boston, he pairs a practical engineering background with an appetite for leveraging AI and tooling to make developer workflows more transparent and self-service.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Systems Analysis and Design, Advanced Diploma, Systems Analysis and Design at Sheridan College
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Ethan Smith - Senior Software Engineering Manager at Xometry