Ralph Smith
Founder at Quant Alchemy
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Smith is a founder and front-end software engineer with 14 years of experience building performant web applications and developer-friendly architectures. He has led UI rewrites and teams at enterprise companies like CA Technologies and IBM, and architected React/Redux-based products while championing test-first development and CI/CD. As founder of Quant Alchemy and prior solo ventures, he blends algorithmic trading automation and consumer-facing PWAs with hands-on implementation of OAuth, Yodlee integrations, and deployment pipelines. Known for a language-agnostic pragmatism, his strengths are simplifying complexity, delivering measurable performance gains, and fostering accountable, curious teams. Based in Fort Collins, CO, he pairs engineering rigor with a founder’s bias for execution and a passion for clean, elegant solutions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSEE Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinAssociate of Engineering, Associate of Engineering at Austin Community College
English
Stackoverflow
641reputation
34kreached
11answers
14questions
Github Skills (200)
authentication10
material-ui10
recharts10
react-components10
react-component10
jwt10
css-modules10
material-design10
react10
oauth10
javascript9
history9
solidjs9
rest9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ralphsmith80/create-react-app
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Create React apps with no build configuration.
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
react-appsbabelreacteslintbuild-configuration
ralphsmith80/home_bin
Jul 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:18 pushes in 10 years 7 months
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