Summary
Jimi Smoot is a versatile software engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience delivering scalable AI-enabled systems and crypto-ready platforms. As founder of Octavius Labs since 2022, he shapes product and engineering strategy, delivering AI-enabled solutions for real businesses. He currently serves as AI Advisor at Medalist Diversified REIT, guiding practical AI applications in asset management and operations. Prior to that, he led engineering at Outer as VP of Software Engineering, orchestrating remote-first growth from seed to Series B and building the webstore, data, and logistics infrastructure. His entrepreneurial track includes JSFOUR Enterprises, where he built a high-traffic render video platform into seven-figure revenue with no external funding, and SFOX, where he led custody and core trading platform capabilities for a crypto startup. Based in Santa Monica, California, he blends full-stack capabilities across Node.js, React, Typescript, Python and Go with a marketing-informed approach from his bachelor’s degree in Communications/Marketing.
11 years of coding experience