Nick Smit
Co-founder And CEO at Safety
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Smit is a product-focused technology leader and founder with seven years of experience building and scaling product and security-focused companies, currently serving as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Safety Cybersecurity. He led product strategy and shipping at AWS as a Principal Product Manager, and previously built and ran product teams at Kickstarter and multiple startups he co-founded, combining hands-on technical development with business strategy. Nick has a track record of turning early-stage ideas into operational products—from sensor-driven retail analytics to creator monetization platforms—and often sits at the intersection of product, growth, and engineering. Based in Los Angeles, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset sharpened by postgraduate entrepreneurship training at the University of Cape Town and a background in PPE. Outside work he’s an avid programmer, Eagle Scout, and fan of gaming and heavy metal—traits that speak to his disciplined curiosity and unconventional planning style.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Postgrad, Entrepreneurship, Postgrad, Entrepreneurship at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (27)
minecraft10
minecraft-forge10
discord10
forge10
java10
spice10
titan9
intelligent8
spotify8
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discord-py6
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amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AnonymousHacker1279/ImmersiveWeapons
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Immersive Weapons is more than just a weapons mod aiming to spice up your combat skills.
Contributions:107 releases, 4 reviews, 524 commits in 2 years 6 months
immersivecombatminecraftminecraft-forgemod
AnonymousHacker1279/OpenPortals
Dec 2023 - May 2026
Forge fork of https://github.com/kyrptonaught/customportalapi based off https://github.com/Mysticpasta1/customportalapi
Contributions:1 release, 17 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
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