Summary
Matt Smith is a VP of Engineering with 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling teams and systems, currently leading engineering at Pattern® from Lehi, Utah. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with a research focus in data mining and social analytics, bringing rigorous, research-driven thinking to product and platform decisions. A former CTO and multiple-time founder, he blends entrepreneurial grit with enterprise engineering practices to rapidly deliver customer-facing systems. Matt is passionate about using code to improve the world and has moved between individual contributor, academic, and executive roles, giving him unusual empathy for both researchers and builders. He consistently navigates the intersection of data, social capital, and product, turning complex analytic insights into practical engineering outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
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PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Brigham Young University