Zach Smith
Executive Director at RepRap Research Foundation
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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SeniorZach Smith is an experienced web developer and technology leader with 13 years building scalable web applications and services. As Executive Director of the RepRap Research Foundation since 2007, he blends hands-on engineering with open hardware advocacy, leading work on an influential open-source 3D printer project. His technical toolkit spans PHP, MySQL, HTML, AJAX, JSON and XML, and he has a history of delivering web systems in university, agency, and startup environments. Previously he served as a senior developer at Connected Ventures and ran his own consulting shop, MyKin, demonstrating both product-focused and entrepreneurial experience. Based in Ames, Iowa, Zach brings a practical, community-minded approach to tooling and infrastructure that favors reproducibility and scalability. An early adopter of maker culture, he pairs web systems expertise with a long-term commitment to open collaborative hardware.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (86)
internet10
arduino-library10
3d-printer10
printer10
https-server10
espressif9
testing9
esp329
3d-printing9
arduino9
nodejs9
http-server9
esp-idf8
esp82668
platformio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hoeken/yarrboard
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 425 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
hoeken/yarrboard-firmware
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 219 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
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