Kevin Smith
VP Engineering (IM & Presence) at Isode Ltd
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorKevin Smith is a veteran engineering leader with 19 years of experience specializing in XMPP, instant messaging, and presence systems, currently serving as VP Engineering (IM & Presence) at Isode. He combines deep protocol expertise—spanning client, bot, component and server work—with hands-on development in C/C++, Java, and Rust, plus scripting in Python, Ruby and Lua. A long-time contributor to XMPP standardization and co-author of the definitive book on the subject, he bridges engineering, community stewardship, and product direction. Kevin also maintains active open-source engagement as a core developer of the cross-platform Swift XMPP client, focusing on usability for non-technical users. Known for applying multi-objective and evolutionary optimisation thinking to engineering problems, he brings pragmatic research-informed approaches to complex system design. Based in the Greater Cardiff area, he combines deep legacy knowledge with a willingness to adopt new languages and idioms where they add value.
19 years of coding experience
English, Welsh
Github Skills (65)
travis10
lua10
chat10
qt10
gdscript10
swift10
xmpp10
markup10
gdextension10
cross-platform10
gdnative10
scons10
ios10
travis-ci10
hosts10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kev/xeps
Jun 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:54 pushes, 27 branches in 6 years 3 months
Kev/librestpp
Jun 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 52 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
cpprest-serverserver-frameworkrestserver
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