Andrew SmithI work on software that has to hold up in real use.
Most of my background is in product and platform work where the code, the UX, and the business model all push on each other at the same time.
Lately I have been spending a lot of time on how AI fits into that kind of work: inside the workflow, inside the product, and inside the systems that support both.
Current projects
Platform engineering across commerce, subscriptions, media delivery, and AI-assisted internal tooling.
Built and improved the systems behind ActionVFX.com, including the marketplace, subscriptions, licensing, search, payments, and the infrastructure needed to serve a large media catalog reliably.
Internal pipeline work for content operations and AI-assisted catalog tooling.
Built internal pipeline tooling for tagging, search indexing, and media workflows so the catalog could be processed with less manual cleanup and better operational visibility.
Past projects
Founding engineer to director of engineering.
Built a high-performing engineering team and helped ship the software behind e-commerce, fleet management, ERP, routing, and data analytics.
Senior engineer and team lead, contract.
Supported student engineers as they built a medtech platform for medical trial cohort management and helped keep the product and team moving in the same direction.
Founder
Built an open source citizen journalism platform that powered Paiwandgah.af, a voting suppression tracker, and Sadroz.af, an election promise tracker, during a difficult election cycle in Afghanistan.