Jesse Smith
Principal Engineer at VideoAmp
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Smith is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack, data-driven SaaS and enterprise applications, currently shaping architecture and delivery at VideoAmp. He has advanced from backend .NET systems and financial platforms to modern React frontends and cloud-native services, leading agile planning, on-call triage, and team-level engineering standards. Jesse is an active contributor to large open-source algorithm collections (notably implementations across C#, C++, Java and Rust in the OpenGenus/cosmos dataset), reflecting a deep practical grounding in algorithms and performance. Known for improving test coverage and CI/CD workflows, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and pragmatic product collaboration to help teams ship reliably. Based in the United States, he blends a biochemistry undergrad perspective with technical training in computer information technology, a background that underlines his curiosity and interdisciplinary problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
A.A.S. Computer Information Technology, A.A.S. Computer Information Technology at Southeast Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (13)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
csharp10
data-structure10
dotnet-core10
sorting-algorithms10
java9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
javas9
rust8
javascript8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenGenus/cosmos
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
World's largest Contributor driven code dataset | Used in Quark Search Engine, @OpenGenus IQ, OpenGenus Visual Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed various sorting and mathematical algorithms implemented in C#, C++, and Java. The contributions include bucket sort, cycle sort, and shaker sort in C#, breadth-first search in C++, counting sort in C# and Java, heap sort in Rust, and a sieve of Eratosthenes implementation in C# and JavaScript. These implementations focus on different algorithmic approaches to common computer science problems.
datastructuresinternshipcontributordatasetopengenus
Jecoms/regextra
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Extension of standard regex functions
Contributions:14 PRs, 14 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 5 months
regular-expressionregexregex-engineregexp
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