Samuel Smith
Owner Founder at Digital Trust Ventures
Lindon, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Smith is a founder, researcher, and systems architect with over two decades of experience building intelligent, autonomous, and distributed systems across academia, startups, and open source. He pioneered reinforcement-learning approaches for optimization and led multi-disciplinary design of autonomous underwater vehicles, later translating that holistic systems view into practical protocols and frameworks like Ioflo and RAET used in SaltStack. As founder of ProSapien and creator of KERI, he blends deep computational-intelligence expertise with hands-on product and protocol engineering in identity, reputation, and edge automation. He has founded multiple companies, supervised large research teams and budgets, and authored 120+ publications bridging theory and deployed systems. Known for thinking like a comprehensivist, he couples Lean Startup discipline with low-level protocol design and cryptographic rigor to bring complex, safety- and privacy-sensitive systems to production.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, samoan
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Github Skills (179)
python10
automation10
infrastructure10
specification10
remote-execution10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
message-passing10
flow-based-programming10
artemis10
event-stream10
cisco10
yang10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
SmithSamuelM/brine
Jan 2013 - Nov 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years 10 months
vmware-archive/raet
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 12 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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