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About
Portrait of Matt Smith

Matt

Smith

Full Stack Software Engineer. Love leading teams and being led by others. Believer in people, tech and helping people with tech.

I have a very board approach to engineering. The more I can learn and expose myself to, the more data points I have to make decisions with. I learned guitar and cinematography and surfing and woodworking to become a better engineer. I suppose I learned to learn.

And I love it.

I value ownership, accountability and trust. I value measuring twice and cutting once. I value failing fast. I value calculated risks when the outcome for humanity is too great to do nothing. I value questioning everything and then knowing when to make a descision and then maintaining the ability to adapt.

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Projects
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Aerial Ops Platform

Real-time drone fleet orchestration

A control surface for coordinating autonomous drone fleets with live telemetry, geofencing, and on-device ML for anomaly detection.

TypeScriptNext.jsWebSocketsPythonONNX RuntimeROS2
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ML Insights Studio

Explainable ML for real systems

An interactive workbench for pairing sensor data with explainable ML models, featuring timeline scrubbing, saliency overlays, and experiment tracking.

ReactNext.jsPyTorchPostgreSQLRedis
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Edge Lab Kit

Hardware-in-the-loop experimentation

A portable lab for running hardware-in-the-loop simulations on embedded targets, with a web UI for flashing, profiling, and logging.

RustEmbedded CNext.jsgRPCGrafana
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Experience

UVic UAV (Unmanned Ariel Vehicle) Team

Head of Software - Victoria, BC

January 2025 - Present

  • Delivered 20+ client projects
  • Specialized in React and performance optimization
  • Collaborated closely with design teams

Primer

Full Stack Software Intern - San Francisco, CA

April- August, 2025

  • Led migration of legacy systems to modern stack
  • Mentored 6 junior engineers
  • Architected scalable microservices infrastructure

Schneider Electric

Software Intern - Victoria, BC

April - August, 2023

  • Early team member (employee #8)
  • Built MVP in 3 months
  • Scaled to 100k+ users

Tesla

App Developer - Remote

September - December, 2020

  • Rebuilt a legacy design tool into a modern desktop application using Angular and Ionic.
  • reducing mechanical component design time by 90%
  • Collaborated closely with design teams
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Contact

Open to new opportunities, contract work, or interesting technical challenges. Currently available for full-time positions and consulting.