Ty Smith

Ty is a Principal Engineer at Uber in Platform engineering and is the chairman of Uber's Open-Source program. He's focused on developer productivity and strives to help engineers ship fast high-quality products. He has a passion for AI, dev tools, frameworks, mobile apps, and open-source. He co-chairs the Mobile Native Foundation and is a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin. He gives regular conference presentations, works on open-source, writes, and organizes community events. He is an angel investor, startup advisor, and a limited partner in several venture capital groups. Ty has been at Uber for 8 years and prior he worked at Twitter as a lead on Fabric developer tools, Evernote, cofounded a startup, and worked at a variety of smaller startups and consulting firms