Kevin Smith
Senior Chromium Software Engineer at Brave Software
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Smith is a Senior Chromium Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant browser features and full‑stack web systems, currently working on Brave’s private ad and rewards ecosystem in C++ and React. He brings deep expertise in programming languages and compilers from his time as Microsoft’s TC39 representative and co-editor of the ECMAScript spec, and has improved core Observable semantics in a widely watched TC39 proposal. Kevin has led architecture and engineering efforts across media and healthcare platforms, shipping secure single‑page apps, authentication systems, and large-scale SQL Server operations. Comfortable across low‑level VM work and user-facing UI, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic product focus. Based in Athens, Georgia, he pairs a rare combination of language design experience and hands‑on browser engineering that improves both correctness and real-world performance.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Philosophy, B.A, Philosophy at Florida State University
Github Skills (16)
management10
javascript10
user-interface10
manage10
front-end-development10
subscribe10
subscriber10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
component-based9
modular-architecture9
css8
html8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tc39/proposal-observable
May 2015 - Dec 2016
Observables for ECMAScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:206 commits, 16 PRs, 204 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of an ECMAScript Observable proposal, as evidenced by their modifications to the Observable.js file. These changes involved reworking the internal mechanics of subscriptions and their life cycle, the most significant being the signature of initializer functions. The user's work aimed to refine the internal structure of the observable to improve performance and correctness.
data-bindingobservablesjavascriptreactivityemitter
brave/brave-core
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1676 reviews, 594 commits, 1082 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on modifying and implementing user interface components within the Brave Rewards web application, using React and potentially related web technologies. The commits indicate a focus on building and refining the appearance and functionality of features like the tip form, the rewards card, and managing the UI for the auto contribute system. They also contributed to theming support.
browserwindowsbrave-browserlinuxandroid
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