Jason Smythe
CTO And Co-founder at Envio
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolJason Smythe is a CTO and serial co-founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building Ethereum-native systems and developer-focused blockchain infrastructure. Based in Cape Town, he leads Envio to develop next-gen realtime blockchain indexers optimized for speed, maintainability and a clean developer experience, while also steering DeFi protocol engineering at Float Capital. His background ranges from full-stack blockchain engineering and production-grade DevOps to designing privacy-aware financial proofs at ConsenSys, reflecting a rare blend of smart-contract expertise and infrastructure craft. Jason has repeatedly turned research and prototypes into deployed systems—from an oracle and DApp still running in production to RTGS proofs for central-bank pilots—and he mentors technical direction across multiple startups. He combines academic training in computer science and game design with a persistent focus on tech that creates positive societal impact, including NFT-driven conservation experiments. Colleagues describe him as someone who marries pragmatic engineering with product-minded innovation, often surfacing overlooked developer experience wins.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Computer Science, Honours, Computer Science at University of Cape Town
English, German, Afrikaans, Turkish
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
subversion10
kdeconnect10
rescript10
whatsapp10
syncthing10
lucky-framework10
api10
fuel10
hardhat10
eip10
raise10
smart-contracts10
wallet10
latex10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
JasoonS/TotalTempo
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:20 PRs, 102 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
sherlock-audit/2022-11-float-capital
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:36 reviews, 13 commits, 1 PR in 5 days
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