Jonathan Smith
Lead Software Architect at NBC News
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Smith is a Lead Software Architect with 14 years of senior experience building data-driven, media-centric web and desktop systems from research prototypes to live national broadcast deployments. He specializes in architecting fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems that combine statistical learning and real-time data ingestion—most notably leading the redevelopment of NBC’s election-night platform that ran thousands of concurrent statistical models in production. Equally at home in functional Scala/Akka for concurrent servers and in designing responsive single-page UIs backed by asynchronous Java services, he brings deep expertise translating R prototypes into efficient production code. His background spans academia and industry—from interactive digital media and educational platforms to video and image processing—giving him a rare mix of data science, UI design, and systems engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, mentorship, and hands-on delivery under high-stakes conditions.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Geography, MA, Geography at University of WashingtonMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at New York University
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Github Skills (17)
clojure6
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javascript5
azure3
typescript3
azure-functions3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JonathanSmith/multi-blog
Sep 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:42 commits in 5 months
JonathanSmith/Lisp-on-Yaws
Jul 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:84 commits in 6 months
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