Silas Smith is a hands-on engineering leader and director with over two decades of experience building large-scale distributed systems and a decade-plus in senior leadership roles across startups and enterprise software. Currently leading software engineering at Pinecone after founding and serving as CTO at Headwind Labs, he blends product-minded technical strategy with deep expertise in platform APIs, IoT/connected operations, and inference systems. Based in San Diego, he has a track record of scaling teams and systems at ServiceNow, Sony, and defense contractors, navigating both rapid product pivots and long-lived mission-critical projects. As an AI/engineering advisor and manager of inference engineering, he brings practical ML deployment experience and a founder’s appetite for shipping prototypes into production. Unusually, his background spans high-assurance aerospace work through consumer entertainment platforms to cutting-edge vector search infrastructure, enabling him to translate rigorous engineering practices into innovative, production-ready products.
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Silas Smith - Director Software Engineering at WaveOn