Ida De Smet - Founding Software Engineer

Ida De Smet

Founding Software Engineer

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Ida De Smet is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building ETL pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and web applications for startups, R&D organizations, and space missions. Currently the sole engineer at an AI startup, she designed a multi-tenant predictive platform using Python, TypeScript, Next.js and AWS microservices, and has hands-on experience orchestrating LLM-driven analytics. Her work at Rocket Lab supported NASA’s CAPSTONE mission and hundreds of engine tests, and she has scaled SaaS systems used by over 100,000 users while improving observability and incident response. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, she combines an engineer’s rigor with a background in psychology and sports that shapes pragmatic, user-focused problem solving. Ida is also an active front-end contributor to research-grade open-source projects like WebGazer, demonstrating curiosity that drives both experimental prototypes and production systems. Based in Vancouver, she thrives in fast-moving teams and likes to ask “why?” to uncover better technical and product decisions.

10 years of coding experience

8 years of employment as a software developer

Conjoint of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering, Conjoint of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Science, Computer Software Engineering at University of Auckland

Bachelor's degree, Psychology, Bachelor's degree, Psychology at McGill University

English, Dutch, Finnish

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Github Skills (5)

html10

javascript10

front-end-development10

canvas10

jquery8

Programming languages (3)

CSSHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

brownhci/WebGazer

Mar 2017 - Nov 2018

WebGazer.js: Scalable Webcam EyeTracking Using User Interactions

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:1 release, 195 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 8 months

Contributions summary:Ida primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on the user interface of the web application. They added functionality for click plotting by creating an example and the corresponding javascript file. Further commits included adding and modifying HTML and JavaScript to plot points on the canvas and draw dots.

scalablewebcamjavascripteyetrackinginteractions

idaknow/WebGazer

Nov 2017 - Jun 2018

WebGazer.js: Scalable Webcam EyeTracking Using User Interactions

Contributions:48 PRs, 110 pushes, 54 branches in 6 months

scalablejswebcamjavascripteyetracking

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