Kenneth Smith
Chief Executive Officer at Spatial Logic
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Smith is a seasoned technology and business leader with 12 years of experience scaling engineering organizations and launching product-focused companies, currently CEO of Spatial Logic in Boulder. He blends deep technical roots—from a Ph.D. in physics and early research computing—to senior engineering leadership at Google and Visa where he built production data platforms, DevOps capabilities, and AI-assisted workflows. Known for prioritizing psychological safety, fast feedback loops, and clear purpose, he repeatedly translates complex technical problems into operational improvements and commercial value. His background spans startups, consulting, R&D and C-suite roles, giving him a rare fluency across product, engineering, and operations. An educator-turned-executive, he brings a researcher's rigor and an operator's pragmatism to building semantically rich 3D digital twins and other data-driven systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Other, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Other, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessPh.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at Penn State UniversityB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Bradley University
Github Skills (42)
api8
blockchain7
aip7
ethereum6
ats6
clojurescript5
react5
pipe5
graphql-subscriptions5
atom-editor5
javascript4
notation4
infix-notation4
intellisense4
clojure4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
klsmithphd/aoc-clj
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
Solutions to Advent of Code challenges implemented in Clojure
Contributions:239 PRs, 617 pushes, 242 branches in 2 years 2 months
leiningeneplaemclojurebabashka
klsmithphd/aoc-py
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
Solutions to Advent of Code challenges implemented in Python
Contributions:93 PRs, 163 pushes, 93 branches in 11 months
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