Richard Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Kount, an Equifax Company
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montréal with 11 years of experience building mobile and web systems across startups and enterprise teams. He currently works on payments infrastructure at Kount (an Equifax company) using Go, gRPC/Protobuf, Terraform/Helm and cloud-native observability, and has led end-to-end mobile rewrites and architecture efforts across Android and iOS. Richard has deep cross-platform mobile expertise—contributing bug fixes to the high-profile NativeScript project and migrating apps from NativeScript to native Kotlin/Swift—while also owning backend migrations from REST to gRPC. He has led remote teams, shaped CI/CD and release automation, and implemented analytics/tracking across apps, showing a blend of hands-on coding and operational rigor. Notably, his background spans QA, tooling and media automation, which gives him an uncommon focus on testability and release reliability. He holds a graduate diploma in computer science from Concordia and combines engineering discipline with product-aware thinking.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma, Computer Science, Graduate Diploma, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityThe University of Utah
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
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typescript10
javascript10
ios10
typescripts10
nativescript10
android10
typescript-types10
java9
swift9
javas9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NativeScript/NativeScript
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java, Dart). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Dart (Flutter) and you name it compatible.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on fixing bugs and addressing issues related to the NativeScript framework, specifically targeting both iOS and Android platforms. Their contributions included resolving a crash in the Android Tab-View component, enhancing image asset retrieval on iOS to handle assets stored remotely, and correcting errors in the Android image loading mechanisms. They also addressed a potential null reference exception within the action bar component on iOS, ensuring the stability and reliability of the application across both mobile operating systems.
ionic-reactsolidjsbest-ofvueios
DickSmith/jetbrains_settings
Jun 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:241 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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