Summary
Isaiah Smith is a Senior Software Engineer in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building high-performance web apps, e-commerce product pages, and creator-focused platforms using Next.js, TypeScript, React, and modern CI/CD tooling. He’s shipped editorial and content management systems at IGN, led frontend architecture and TypeScript best practices at GOAT Group, and recently drove micro-frontend and design-system work at Cast & Crew before joining NerdWallet. Isaiah blends product-minded UI/UX collaboration with deep hands-on skills in cloud deployments (Google Cloud, Docker, GitHub Actions) and payment/storage integrations for creator platforms. Beyond production work he creates content—co-hosting a games podcast and live-streaming dev sessions—which informs his user-centered approach and community-oriented tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate design systems into reusable component libraries and to modernize legacy stacks for maintainability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), New Media Interactive Development, Bachelor of Science (BS), New Media Interactive Development at Rochester Institute of Technology