Tom Smith
Manager, Solution Architecture, EMEA at Sanity
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarTom Smith is a solutions-focused engineering leader with a decade of experience driving developer-facing products and integrations across EMEA, now managing Solution Architecture at Sanity. He blends hands-on front-end craft—evidenced by contributions to Sanity Studio and a Shopify template integration—with strategic customer-facing architecture and team leadership. His background spans senior technical roles and agency leadership at Statement, where he scaled technical teams through an acquisition, alongside freelance Shopify/Shopify Plus consulting. Comfortable shipping UX improvements and schema-level content integrations, he bridges product, platform, and commerce workflows to accelerate time-to-value. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that prioritizes developer experience and real-world integration patterns.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
headlessui9
headless-browser9
headless-cms9
cms9
styled-components9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sanity-io/sanity
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Sanity Studio, focusing on the Shopify template integration. Their work included fixing UI export issues, integrating styled components for enhanced styling capabilities, and adding a new Shopify template to the CLI options. Furthermore, they introduced new schemas and components specifically designed for the Shopify integration, including settings, collections, and product-related components. The changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience and the integration of Shopify-specific features within the Sanity Studio environment.
cmsheadlessreactrealtimesanity-studio
sanity-io/sanity-plugin-shopify-assets
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
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