Kenneth Smith
Chief Executive Officer at Spatial Logic
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Smith is a seasoned technology and business leader with 12 years of experience scaling engineering organizations and launching product-focused companies, currently CEO of Spatial Logic in Boulder. He blends deep technical roots—from a Ph.D. in physics and early research computing—to senior engineering leadership at Google and Visa where he built production data platforms, DevOps capabilities, and AI-assisted workflows. Known for prioritizing psychological safety, fast feedback loops, and clear purpose, he repeatedly translates complex technical problems into operational improvements and commercial value. His background spans startups, consulting, R&D and C-suite roles, giving him a rare fluency across product, engineering, and operations. An educator-turned-executive, he brings a researcher's rigor and an operator's pragmatism to building semantically rich 3D digital twins and other data-driven systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Other, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Other, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessPh.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at Penn State UniversityB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Bradley University
Github Skills (33)
ats7
aip7
api7
ethereum6
blockchain6
react5
clojure5
atom-editor4
infix-notation4
graphql-subscriptions4
js4
reader3
aws3
javascript3
vscode3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
klsmithphd/aoc-py
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
Solutions to Advent of Code challenges implemented in Python
Contributions:93 PRs, 163 pushes, 93 branches in 11 months
Ken-2scientists/advent-utils
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Helper utilities for Advent of Code solutions
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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