Marisa Smith
Developer Advocate
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMarisa Smith is a Developer Advocate with six years of experience translating complex technical problems into engaging developer education and community growth. With a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computational Physical Chemistry, she brings deep scientific rigor to developer relations work, having earlier modeled radiation effects in water using Monte Carlo methods and HPC. She has driven measurable product adoption—doubling subscribers and increasing monthly active users by an order of magnitude through targeted content, and building education programs and YouTube series to scale onboarding. Comfortable in startups and consultancy, she currently advocates at Shipyard while consulting in developer relations, blending hands-on content creation, platform strategy, and community engagement. A data scientist and science enthusiast who swims and volunteers for animal causes, she often surfaces non-obvious technical insights from research-grade simulation experience to inform product storytelling and pedagogy.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Computational Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Computational Physical Chemistry at The University of ManchesterBachelor’s Degree, Architecture, Bachelor’s Degree, Architecture at Dalhousie UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Chemistry at Mount Allison University
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Github Skills (47)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mesmith027/sqlmesh
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
SQLMesh is a data transformation framework that brings the benefits of DevOps to data teams. It enables data scientists, analysts, and engineers to efficiently run and deploy data transformations written in SQL or Python.
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mesmith027/streamlit_webapps
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
Place to develop cool and interesting webapps with Streamlit
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 2 years 1 month
placepythoninterestingstreamlitwebapp
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