Kevin Smith
Chief Financial Officer at URBAN PARTNERS LOS ANGELES INC
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Smith is a versatile technology leader and CFO based in Santa Monica with 11 years of professional experience and a career spanning startups, games, AR, and large-scale UI frameworks at Google. He blends executive finance responsibilities with hands-on engineering—founding indie game studio Wise Old Duck, shipping iOS titles, and later contributing as a senior UI frameworks engineer at Google. His mobile and systems expertise includes improving image-fetching performance and web cache compliance in the widely used PINRemoteImage library, reflecting a practical open-source impact. Kevin is comfortable switching hats from product-facing engineering to company leadership, bringing an operator’s sensibility to technical architecture and fiscal strategy. Educated across physics, chemistry, and computer science, he has a long-standing appetite for building playful, innovative products that scale. Notably, he continues to lead software efforts while serving as CFO, signaling a rare blend of code-level craft and executive stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science at Montana State University
Github Skills (7)
objective-c10
caching10
ios10
image-processing10
networking9
http-header9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/PINRemoteImage
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 23 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the image fetching capabilities of the iOS library. Their contributions involved updating the caching mechanism by integrating TTL (Time-To-Live) cache features. They also refactored code to respect Cache-Control headers, improving the library's compliance with web caching standards. Additionally, the user addressed backwards compatibility and implemented a convenience initializer for the PINURLSessionManager.
objective-cimagegifsfeature-richsdwebimage
wiseoldduck/Texture
Jul 2018 - May 2021
Smooth asynchronous user interfaces for iOS apps.
Contributions:2 PRs, 69 pushes, 42 branches in 2 years 10 months
asynchronoususer-interfacesswiftiosasync
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