Ryan R. Smith
Welcome to my web page. My interests include: mythology, theology, history of western civilization, trees, architecture, decentralization, other similar things, and all thing related to computer programming.
October 2022 I started a new company called Index Supply, Co. I’m going to build a new kind of ethereum node.
My work history in a nutshell:
- 2021 - 2022 - Built the Ethereum indexing system at mint.fun.
- 2018 - 2019 - Started and stopped a cross border wallet called Pogo with co-founders from Chain.
- 2013 - 2018 - Co-founder / CTO at Chain. Acquired by Interstellar –the comercial arm of Stellar. Pivoted from Bitcoin API to private blockchain node to decentralized ledger.
- 2010 - 2013 - Heroku engineer. Joined as the 18th employee and grew with the company till we hit 150 people and millions of apps. Loved Heroku a lot!
Before that:
- 2006 - 2010 - Undergrad Math at the University of Missouri KC.
- 1986 - I’ve been programming computers for as long as I can remember.
Listed in 30u30 and not convicted of crimes
Books I’ve read recently
Spirituality
Finance
Talks
- Predictable Failure - Monitorama 2013 s
- Fewer Constraints More Concurrency - RubyKaigi 2013 s
Nerd Stuff
Notes From My Career
Contact
public key, random, travel, photos, chopper links, gifs