Kevin Smith
Staff Software Engineer at Circle
Canton, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Smith is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack products, currently shaping payments and commerce infrastructure at Circle after helping grow Coinbase Commerce. He pairs deep technical breadth—from Go, Rust, and Solidity to React/React Native and GraphQL—with a track record of launching greenfield mobile and web products, architecting backend systems, and improving front-end performance and bundle size. A natural mentor and former instructor, he enjoys teaching engineers and translating complex requirements into pragmatic, end-to-end solutions. Outside work he applies a musician’s creative instincts to engineering problems, a perspective that originally led him from Baylor’s music program into computer science and onward to a CS master’s at Georgia Tech. He also contributes to open-source front-end tooling, notably enhancing YNAB’s popular browser extension with UX improvements and robust split-transaction handling. Based in North Georgia, he balances hands-on coding with team leadership while raising five children.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Baylor University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
user-interface10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
emberjs9
html8
css8
parse-platform6
imageformats6
jpeg6
angularjs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
toolkit-for-ynab/toolkit-for-ynab
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
A general purpose YNAB enhancing browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Have it your way!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of a browser extension designed to improve the YNAB budgeting experience. Their primary contributions involved implementing and refining a feature to automatically distribute split transactions, which included adding a user-friendly button. They fixed formatting issues related to currency output, as well as improved the overall reliability and detection of split transactions within the application. Finally, the user ensured that the new feature would work correctly by updating the Ember controller.
firefoxbrowserynabenhancingchrome
ksmithbaylor/pw
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
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