JD Smith
Lead Engineer at Lifeforce
Longview, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJD Smith is a Lead Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering full-stack web applications and leading teams across e-commerce, streaming media, retail, and gaming. He has a strong track record of driving large-scale project delivery, introducing testing and InnerSource practices, and modernizing legacy stacks—efforts that include migrating CoffeeScript to JavaScript, formalizing coding standards, and adding E2E and visual regression testing to increase deployment confidence. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and manager, he has led teams of up to 17 engineers and repeatedly improved scalability and internal processes to reduce maintenance burden. Based in Longview, Texas, JD combines pragmatic architecture and product-focused engineering, and often focuses on developer experience improvements that enable teams to “code fearlessly.”
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Software Engineering, Software Engineering, B.S. Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Colorado Technical University
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Github Skills (61)
minecraft10
lists10
metadata10
opt10
plugin9
styleguidist9
date-formatting9
javascript9
backpack9
internationalization9
mutagen9
installer8
drag8
hosts8
development-environment7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
matortheeternal/reproccer-reborn
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Re-imagined SkyRe Reproccer using zEdit UPF
Contributions:32 commits in 11 months
upf
jdsmith2816/eldersouls
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
Skyrim SE Modlist for Wabbajack
Contributions:18 releases, 6 PRs, 43 pushes in 11 months
wabbajackskyrim-semodskyrimmodlist
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