Steven Smethurst
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Chipkin Automation Systems
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSteven Smethurst is a veteran technology leader and CTO who has spent two decades building protocol translation and integration solutions that extend the life of legacy systems rather than forcing costly replacements. As founder and head of Chipkin, he has led a global R&D and engineering team across five countries to deliver 1000+ integrations for manufacturing, healthcare, and smart buildings, cutting replacement costs by roughly 60% for clients. Hands-on from embedded C/C++ stacks to cloud tooling (Azure, AWS, Docker, MQTT) he combines low-level protocol expertise (BACnet, Modbus, DNP3, etc.) with modern DevOps and IoT practices. He also brings an uncommon creative streak—co-running digital publishing projects—so he balances technical rigor with product-minded storytelling and partnership-building. Based in Vancouver, he’s focused on pragmatic, cost-effective automation that connects decades-old infrastructure to contemporary IoT ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
English, c++
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (140)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
funvill/LayeredPaperCraft
Jul 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
funvill/StainGlassLaserPatterns
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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