Kevin Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience and over three years in management and team lead roles, currently driving engineering efforts at MasterControl from Park City, Utah. He has a strong full-stack JavaScript background honed at Hack Reactor and a mechanical engineering foundation from Purdue, combining analytical rigor with practical software craftsmanship. Kevin’s career spans startups and product teams—co-founding Spreadstoke and leading principal engineering work at SPOTLYFE and Mighty—where he focused on building scalable, user-facing systems and mentoring engineering teams. He balances product-minded engineering with operational discipline, having moved between front-end roles at Backcountry and backend-focused positions at Taulia. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into shipping features and to stabilize delivery processes while keeping code quality high. Outside of work, his entrepreneurial streak and dual technical/engineering education hint at a pragmatic problem-solver who values both product impact and resilient architecture.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Javascript, Full Stack JavaScript Developer, Software Engineer, Javascript, Full Stack JavaScript Developer, Software Engineer at Hack Reactor
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University
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Kevin Smith - Senior Software Engineer at MasterControl