Summary
Rebecca Smith is a Staff Software Engineer with over 16 years of cross-domain experience building embedded and enterprise systems across avionics, telecommunications, public transit, education, and trucking management. At Collins Aerospace she blends hands-on development (C, C++, C#, Java, Python) with leadership as a SAFe Scrum Master, architect of a custom build-management tool, and departmental training focal. She has a passion for mentoring and teaching—having founded an engineering consultancy and taught college courses—and excels at onboarding engineers and closing training gaps. Rebecca pairs systems-engineering rigor (Master’s and certificates from Stevens Institute) with practical software craftsmanship, often driving process improvements and tooling that make teams more predictable and productive. Not obvious from titles alone: she moves fluidly between writing production code and designing curriculum, making her equally effective at shipping features and elevating team capability.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Northern Iowa
Graduate Certificate, Software Engineering, Graduate Certificate, Software Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
french - functional, not fluent