Summary
Ryan Smith is a software engineering manager at Procore Technologies, leading the Open Item and Custom Fields teams with a focus on scalable notification infrastructure. He is the primary subject matter expert for all notifications infrastructure at Procore, guiding incident response, system design, and long-term technical strategy. Previously as Staff Software Engineer, he led the Notifications Team, building microservices with React and TypeScript and maintaining Rails-based notification infrastructure (Email, Push, Text, In-App). His background spans front-end web development at Legacy.com and his own web design business, plus an interdisciplinary path through philosophy and paralegal studies, illustrating a rare mix of creativity and rigor. Based in Seacliff, California, he combines hands-on coding, leadership, and product collaboration to ship reliable notification systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at General Assembly
University of California Santa Cruz
Certificate, Paralegal, Certificate, Paralegal at UC Berkeley Extension