Kyle Smith
Partner at rae partners
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Smith is a technology leader and founder with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable software and infrastructure across startups and large organizations. He has shipped platform and reliability improvements as a Staff Software Engineer at Twilio and Senior SRE at Indeed, and later co-founded Hominy AI where he serves as CTO, blending product-focused engineering with AI development. Now a Partner at rae partners and an alum of Berkeley SkyDeck, he combines hands-on engineering with early-stage startup acceleration experience. Based in Austin, he brings full-stack fluency from UI work through systems engineering and a knack for operationalizing complex systems in production. Outside of work he self-describes as the "50cc scooter gang leader of ATX," hinting at a playful, community-oriented side that complements his pragmatic leadership.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of MichiganComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
knksmith57/hexo-renderer-sass
Jul 2013 - Mar 2019
Sass renderer plugin for Hexo
Contributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 5 years 8 months
rendererhexosass
knksmith57/vim-live-it-campaign
Jan 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years
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