Matt Smida
Assistant Actuary II, North End Re at American National
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Smida is a full-stack software engineer and former actuary who blends a strong quantitative foundation in physics and actuarial science with hands-on product and sales experience across insurance and fintech. He has built and demonstrated complex valuation and modeling tools for Fortune 100 clients, bootstrapped a habit-change webapp (including MySQL, Twilio integration, and user persistency studies), and recently completed immersive full-stack training in Flask, React, and Express. Comfortable moving between data, models, and user-facing products, he has automated workflows and reporting in Prophet, Tableau, and VBA to improve efficiency and decision-making. After a two-year sabbatical spent sailing 2,000 miles, building a tiny house, and climbing internationally, he’s returning energized to apply his interdisciplinary skill set to software engineering challenges. Practical, product-minded, and data-driven, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and enterprise experience to new engineering roles.
2 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Summa Cum Laude, Physics, 3.96, BS, Summa Cum Laude, Physics, 3.96 at Florida State University
Github Skills (9)
gtd10
cli9
time-tracking9
toggl9
taskwarrior9
task-management8
jekyll7
command-line7
hugo7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattsmida/timewarrior
May 2024 - Jun 2024
Timewarrior - Commandline Time Tracking and Reporting
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 181 pushes in 27 days
mattsmida/ti.net
May 2024 - Sep 2024
timewarrior.net site
Contributions:15 PRs, 92 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
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