Robert Smith
Founder & CEO at Joypad Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Smith is a multidisciplinary engineering leader with 24 years of experience blending full-stack software development and hardware design, currently heading Hardware at EIDON AI. He founded niche hardware startup Controller Adapter, building retro gaming accessories and an e-commerce business, and previously scaled high-throughput e-commerce and notification systems as a senior/staff engineer at Pushnami and Sumo. Equally at home in embedded systems and web stacks, he has a history of shipping product-focused tools—from a custom WYSIWYG email editor to the precursor to Chromecast during a college startup. Based in Austin, he brings founder grit and research rigor (background in quantitative imaging and math/computer science) to bridge firmware, cloud services, and ML-driven product features. Notably, he combines a hacker’s curiosity for retro consoles with production-grade engineering for AI and blockchain-infused platforms.
24 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Houston
English
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Github Skills (147)
usb-hid10
controller10
switch10
firmware10
gamepad10
bluetooth10
arduino-library10
usb-devices10
embedded10
devtools10
midi10
xinput10
developer-tools10
arcade10
rich-text10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
RobertDaleSmith/fire-sauce-crx
Jul 2015 - May 2019
Fire Sauce TV Chrome Extension
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
chrome-extensionfiresaucechrome
RobertDaleSmith/nodejs-starter
Feb 2014 - Aug 2015
NodeJS, MongoDB, dust.js, Sass, and bcrypt password protected back-end.
Contributions:14 commits, 4 pushes, 4 comments in 1 year 6 months
backendbcryptdustjsmongodbnodejs
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