Christian D. Smith

Founded product studio building AI-powered consumer and productivity tools (JoLo, Card Benefits Map, Present, Link Strippa) · smithlabs.llc

Accepted to Visible Hands NYC 2022, a pre-seed accelerator investing in underrepresented founders

Architected autonomous AI-powered feature request pipeline using LLMs and Claude Code for rapid product iteration

Deployed full-stack Next.js applications on Vercel with Prisma/PostgreSQL, handling DNS migration, GitHub CI/CD, and branch protection strategy

Expert network consultant providing strategy, operations, and technical due diligence to growth-stage companies

Developed investment thesis around "direct thought to execution" — the convergence of brain-computer interfaces with orchestrated AI agents

Owned high-visibility Strategic Approvals platform used by ~400 strategic sales leaders and processing $6B+ in enterprise deals — product owner, SRE, and data pipeline owner in one

Structured and negotiated complex renewals averaging $225M revenue with 14% above-target growth across finance, travel, and tech verticals

Led organization-wide Early Renewals analysis, identifying data-driven policy changes that unlocked 24% Y1 growth

Built reporting infrastructure behind Monthly Business Reviews and led strategic investigations to optimize APAC growth

Partnered with AWS product teams to negotiate favorable terms and investments for strategic accounts

Spearheaded mobile product strategy for a $45M+ opportunity — built the financial model, roadmap, and pilot implementations from market research through launch, achieving $3M revenue

Managed technical partnerships with Google Open Bidding and Amazon Publisher Services, defending $224M revenue (80% of business)

Architected strategic supply integrations like AdMob ($10M+ new ad spend) and managed external engineers on CTV, unblocking $4M in marketplace liquidity

Architected batch optimization reducing annual API COGS by $250K; wrote IAB compliance Python crawler and Java Core Exchange adapters

Enhanced supply-side health monitoring by piping ELK logs into company-wide Looker dashboards and automated reports

Mentored business development associate into a full-time software engineering role

Led implementations for Forensiq, programmatic advertising's only full-funnel ad verification suite

Managed pixel, JavaScript, and API implementations with DSPs, Networks, SSPs, and Publishers

Troubleshot integrations and analyzed terabytes of data using MongoDB and SQL tools (Snowflake, BigQuery)

Architected expansion into omnichannel data integrations driving 300M+ MAU growth with Chobani, Walmart, and IPG Mediabrands

Built and maintained web-, API-, and file-based integrations with ad platforms including Google, Adobe, AppNexus, and The Trade Desk

Owned Business Intelligence (Snowflake, SiSense) and ETL pipeline serving global accounts — reduced discrepancies below 5%, recouping 24% of sales previously lost to make-goods

Built on In-Flight Analytics feature (React, Python), focusing on backend relational DB integration and XML transformation automation

Led internal SCRUM development while providing external technical consultation to enterprise clients

Built TheFlipSide — full original website (HTML/CSS/JS) for the apolitical news newsletter · theflipside.io

Analyzed 2016 National Election voter data using Python Dash, surfacing voter turnout opportunities

Developed specification, brand style guide, React demo, and mission for Fireside Chat

Technical lead for developer relations — led trainings for 200+ educational app companies and advised strategic accounts like Schoology

Oversaw outreach, documentation, and full execution of legacy API deprecation, saving $50K+/yr in engineering labor

Consulted EdTech developers on securely integrating roster data via OAuth SSO; one of two Partner Engineers serving 200+ apps as escalation point during Back to School

Maintained and restructured developer documentation at dev.clever.com; wrote ETL scripts for customers without developer resources

Generated $2M net new ARR (33% of total) through Intelligent SDK rollout and strategic client integrations, from Series A through acquisition

Managed shipped-to-app-store integrations for 200M+ MAU across New York Times, Weather Channel, Zillow, Yelp, Yahoo!, Tumblr, and 50+ brands

Led product discovery for Campaign API; aggregated user stories and shipped customer-driven features with engineering (AppleFeedback API, Push-All-Devices, Intelligent Attributes)

Partnered with CTO to deprecate a 30M events/day API, saving $1.4M/yr while achieving 100% client migration

Drove 125% net revenue retention of strategic partners through off-site trainings and global developer support

Wrote custom Python solutions leveraging Kahuna APIs for content recommendations (Pluto TV, Seatgeek) and client-side integrations in Android Java, iOS Swift, and Objective-C

PM on Windows Audio team — shipped Windows 8.1 including the Surface 2 launch

Drove cross-team collaboration with independent hardware vendors (NVidia, Qualcomm) to deliver the audio experience on mobile form factors

Worked with Windows Phone team to port and converge legacy Windows Audio APIs to WinJS; debugged issues in C++ device drivers

Led media user scenario testing for touch devices and product investigations on voice opportunities for future releases

Bridged UI engineering and UX design teams during HDUI development — built ActionScript3 prototypes, wireframes, and mockups in agile workflow