Michael Smith
Chief Innovation Officer, Technical Co-Founder
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a serial technical founder and product-driven engineering leader with 12+ years building real-time transit systems and analytics, currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer and technical co-founder at Swiftly. He created the Transitime real-time transit project, helped scale NextBus from product to market leader with over a million daily users and an acquisition, and has repeatedly translated transit operations data into actionable passenger information. His strengths span algorithms, UX, mobile and web development, and managing cross-functional teams while steering product strategy and partnerships with agencies, universities, and the World Bank. He combines hands-on systems design with business acumen—having led sales presentations, fundraising-aligned technical planning, and engineering hiring/retention. Based in San Francisco, he is driven by a clear mission to make public transit a viable mass-transport alternative and brings rare domain depth from robotics research to transit analytics. An unexpected detail: he remains an active advisor and innovator for transit tech despite being currently disabled by long COVID, continuing to influence the field through strategy and open-data projects.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Mechanical Engineering Robotics, Masters in Mechanical Engineering Robotics at UC Berkeley MS MEBS Mechanical Engineering Software and Robotics Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering Software and Robotics Engineering at UC Berkeley BS ME
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Transitime/core
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
Transitime 0.1 (beta) is an open source project created and managed by Swiftly, Inc. to help transit agencies generate more accurate and reliable real-time arrival information for passengers. This version of the code is an early beta release and should not be used for production implementations. Please reach out to Swiftly at contact@goswift.ly for the most up-to-date software.
Contributions:1895 commits, 7 PRs, 679 pushes in 2 years
real-timeimplementationsreacharrivalagencies
skibu/nornsLib
Aug 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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