Severin Smith
Vice President Hardware Engineering at HeadSpin
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSeverin Smith is a hardware engineering leader with 17 years of experience designing and shipping complex electronics and embedded systems, currently serving as Vice President of Hardware Engineering at HeadSpin. He progressed internally from Director to VP, blending hands-on hardware and software expertise developed through roles as a co‑founder, freelance engineer, and research assistant at McGill. His background spans startup founding (Whirlscape), embedded software at Untether AI, and electronics design, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between silicon, firmware, and productization. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs formal training from McGill and a Y Combinator cohort with practical experience scaling hardware teams and operations. Colleagues describe him as the kind of leader who moves quickly from prototype to manufacturable design while keeping product and developer needs aligned. He often brings research-rooted rigor to commercial challenges, translating lab ideas into reliable, production-grade hardware.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Winter 2014, Winter 2014 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at McGill University
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Github Skills (26)
linux10
midi10
ruby10
homebrew10
audio10
macos10
package-manager10
platformio9
esp82669
arduino9
esp-idf9
esp329
soundpool6
full-text-search6
android-studio6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sparks/dotfiles
Nov 2011 - Oct 2022
Contributions:291 commits, 59 pushes in 11 years 1 month
sparks/algoshirt
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 5 months
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