eric smith

engineer and team lead who loves people and stories

Lome

Co-founder

2021-now

Technology: JS, Vue, Nuxt, Node, Express, Postgres, Render, Git, Webpack
  • Co-founder, Product and Engineering Lead
  • Designed, built, and launched a modular family calendar and communication platform from the ground up.
  • Managed a global remote team, guiding a successful product pivot to community and school volunteer engagement with hundreds of thousands of users.
  • Led and launched a complete rewrite in 2 months, improving security, scalability, user experience, and feature flexibility.

Saltwater & GPX

Tech Lead / CTO

2019-2021

Technology: JS, Vue, Node, Express, MongoDB, React, Postgres, Pusher, Heroku
  • 1st technical & product hire, joining as the 2nd employee to shape the company’s foundational technology strategy.
  • Designed and built investment pipeline and management software, enabling streamlined deal flow and portfolio tracking.
  • Transitioned to CTO for portfolio company (GPX), leading the leadership and project handoff for a complex GPS and logistics platform.
  • Managed a global remote team, driving a full rebrand, a complete e-commerce and platform rewrite, and the launch of a new hardware initiative.

Crowdpac

CTO

2013-2019

Technology: JS, Laravel, Node, Vue, MySQL, AWS, Git, Webpack, LESS, Python
  • Founding Engineer.
  • Built the world's first political crowdfunding platform from the ground up, and raised millions of dollars for grassroots candidates.
  • Launched in US, UK and France.
  • Built sophisticated payments integrations, candidate / election data pipelines, complete social action network, geo-targeted voter tools, surveys, custom CMS / admin interfaces, reporting tools, and systems that accommodated large traffic spikes.
  • Responsible for hiring, managing, and code reviewing for an international remote team of engineers, designers, infrastructure specialists and data scientists.
  • Oversaw product roadmap, serving as lead on product for different periods in the company lifecycle. Worked alongside C-level leadership translating business goals into technical solutions.

Bistro Studios

Co-founder, CTO

2008-2018

Technology: JS, PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Vue, Beanstalk, LESS, HTML
  • Co-founded a web development and design firm with clients like Sterling Publishing (Barnes and Noble), The SCAN Foundation, and CAST LA.
  • Responsible for the build and launch of hundreds of websites using Convergence (our custom CMS) as well as Wordpress, Drupal, and FoxyCart.
  • Built from the ground up a custom SaaS CMS that hosted hundreds of sites and was used by a variety of development firms.
  • Trained frontend developers who built their sites on Convergence through videos and 1:1s.

TOMS Shoes

Web Team Lead

2008-2009

Technology: JS, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS
  • 1 of 2 project leads in charge of complete site redesign, leading approximately 20 staff members.
  • Implemented new CMS and AJAX overlay e-commerce shopping tool.
  • Developed new internal and external database-driven web applications which increased productivity and efficiency, including wholesale ordering system, event invite / shopping tool, automated site templating tool, project request form system.

Down the Road

Web Developer / Art Director

2007-2008

Technology: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Illustrator, Photoshop
  • Developed website and branding for documentary film.
  • Traveled to Central America for filming.
  • Through the project, assisted international aid organizations in helping families and students in one of the hemisphere's largest trash dump communities.