Garrett Smith
Fonder Gage
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Smith is a serial founder and engineering leader with over a decade building scalable, fault-tolerant platforms and developer tools, most recently founding Gage after eight years growing Guild AI. He created Guild AI as an open-source toolkit that brings automation and AI to model development, helping ML engineers and researchers iterate faster and ship higher-quality models. Earlier roles include co-founding Stax Networks and leading PaaS operations at CloudBees, where he ran enterprise-grade application hosting, autoscaling, and monitoring services. Garrett’s background spans hands-on distributed systems engineering, product leadership, and operational reliability—skills honed across startups and large consulting engagements. Based in Chicago, he combines an economist’s analytical mindset with deep technical experience in automation and platform design. Colleagues rely on him to translate research and complex requirements into practical, production-ready tooling.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics at Macalester College
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
datasets10
visual-studio10
argparse10
command-line-parser10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
nlp10
points10
multiclass-classification10
gofmt10
data-science10
freebsd10
otp10
keras10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gar1t/erlang-czmq
Mar 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 comments in 3 years 9 months
gar1t/erlang-patterns
Mar 2015 - Jul 2020
LambdaPad source files for erlangpatterns.org
Contributions:15 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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