Will Smythe
Staff Product Manager at GitHub
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Smythe is a Staff Product Manager at GitHub with 12 years of experience building developer tools and platform integrations, currently leading the Pull Requests product after previously owning Slack integration, Marketplace, and extensibility. He blends deep technical fluency—evident from front-end and back-end open-source contributions to high-profile Microsoft and Azure DevOps repos—with product leadership that helped launch unified marketplaces and a new app extensibility model. Will has driven CI/CD adoption for open-source projects at scale and improved authentication, notification, and developer UX across large platforms. Comfortable in both code and strategy, he writes tooling and docs (PowerShell/Python) and has hands-on experience refactoring SDKs, adding OAuth token refresh, and building UI integrations. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs a math-and-CS degree with a track record of turning platform complexity into approachable developer experiences.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Southwest Baptist University
Github Skills (37)
azure-devops-server10
javascript10
client-library10
python10
net10
typescript10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
ui-design10
asp-net10
uid10
front-end-development10
azure-devops10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-devops-auth-samples
Jul 2014 - Nov 2018
Samples showing how to auth with Azure DevOps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Will focused on enhancing the OAuth functionality within the Azure DevOps authentication samples. Their contributions included adding support for scopes and token refresh capabilities, crucial for secure and extended application access. They modified controllers and views to facilitate token retrieval, storage, and refresh processes. These changes enabled the application to handle authentication flow and provide more robust access to Azure DevOps resources.
authazure-devops
microsoft/vsts-extension-samples
Apr 2015 - Jan 2019
Sample extensions for Visual Studio Team Services
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 31 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily worked on front-end aspects, contributing to several sample extensions for Visual Studio Team Services. Their commits demonstrate the creation of UI elements, implementing features for build inspection and work item forms using TypeScript and JavaScript. Key tasks involved integrating with the VSS SDK and updating existing contributions, highlighting a focus on the user interface and the integration of external tools within the VSTS environment.
visual-studio
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