Kevin Smith
Chief Technology Officer at Brilliant
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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RockstarKevin Smith is a Chief Technology Officer based in Cincinnati with a hands-on engineering background and four years of professional experience guiding product and platform development. As CTO at BrilliantOrg and formerly at Abstract and Tarides, he blends strategic leadership with deep backend expertise, particularly in distributed data systems. His open-source contributions to the well-regarded Irmin project demonstrate practical experience modifying core store implementations, designing tree interfaces, and adding high-level garbage-collection APIs for a Git-like distributed database. Kevin favors clean, maintainable systems—evidenced by his removal of unused modules and improved documentation—and brings a pragmatic approach to turning complex storage problems into reliable production services. Notably, he pairs executive responsibility with active coding on low-level infrastructure, keeping technical credibility while steering engineering direction.
4 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (9)
data-storage10
back-end-development10
ocaml10
garbage-collection9
filesystem8
storage8
databases8
database8
code-documentation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mirage/irmin
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Irmin is a distributed database that follows the same design principles as Git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 424 reviews, 202 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily involve modifying the Irmin data store, focusing on core aspects such as store implementation, tree interfaces, and the addition of features like the Int63.Syntax module within the irmin-pack package. The user fixed typos and added documentation to improve the usability of the codebase. They removed unused modules and references to enhance the project's structure, and they implemented high-level APIs for garbage collection.
design-principlesprinciplesocamldistributed-databasedatabase
metanivek/metanivek-xyz
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:59 commits, 9 pushes in 4 months
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