John Smart
Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Startup
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Smart is a seasoned software leader and founder with 14 years building high-growth consumer and AI products, currently CEO of a stealth AI startup in Seattle. He was employee #4 at Ozette (AI biotech), employee #7 and first infrastructure engineer at Figma where he helped launch the web product, backend infrastructure and monetization, and is a cofounder and former chief architect of Zoosk, which scaled to millions of users and was acquired. Comfortable across the full stack—React/TypeScript front-ends, distributed backends, cloud infrastructure and data systems—he blends hands-on engineering with product and go-to-market instincts. His career shows a pattern of early technical leadership at startups, shipping scalable architectures and monetization features, plus a knack for turning research and integrations into commercial products. An under-the-radar strength is his repeated role as the first infrastructure hire, shaping long-term engineering platforms that enable rapid growth.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
mvc10
ruby10
javascript10
sendgrid10
deno10
background-service10
html10
js10
rust10
typescript10
rails10
java10
transactional-emails10
viewport10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
thesmart/node-SmartStream
Dec 2012 - Apr 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 8 years 5 months
thesmart/php-dotty
Jul 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 8 months
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