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Jim Reifsnyder-Smith

Executive Technology Leader and Senior Software Engineer specializing in SaaS platforms

RemoteSenior Software Engineer30 years experienceExecutiveSaaSEnterprise SoftwareWeb Development
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Engineering/product leader with repeated experience defining roadmaps and delivering platform migrations across SaaS and enterprise contexts. Scaled an education system from two districts to 2M+ students statewide, and led an Elasticsearch-based architecture for an internal Disney product serving ~100K employees. Known for rigorous execution (RAID/OKRs/sprints), strong stakeholder communication (weekly AI summaries), and empowering teams via end-to-end ownership and customer-connected development.

Experience

Senior Software EngineerWorkBoard, Inc.
Senior Software ArchitectThe Walt Disney Company
CTOIlluminate Education (Red Schoolhouse Software Division)
Software EngineerYahoo!
Co-founderAzteria
CTOUltramercial
CTOOrange County Transportation Authority
Lead architect, senior programmer and CTOMedical Resources Network
CTOWord of Net
Internet Program Manager / Project ManagerManugistics
Pre-sales Consultant / Product ManagerMicroStrategy
Specialist / Product ManagerThe World Bank

Education

Cornell Universitymaster, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell Universitymaster, Business Administration (Entrepreneurship, Quant and Economics)
McGill Universitybachelor, Theoretical Physics (Minor in Math and Computer Science)

Key Strengths

  • Built and executed a centralized messaging platform roadmap; completed rollout in 8 weeks
  • Strong cross-team alignment via vision/scope docs and weekly AI-generated stakeholder updates
  • Program management rigor using RAID logs, sprint scheduling, and deployment metrics
  • Scaled an education platform from 2 districts to 2M+ students across California
  • Org scaling and talent development: hired key roles, retrained staff, and upskilled developers onto a new framework
  • Change management through direct developer-customer collaboration and end-to-end vertical ownership
  • Led major architecture decision adopting Elasticsearch for ~100,000-employee needs; improved security compartmentalization and product velocity
  • Pragmatic cloud/ops decision-making (leveraged AWS to reduce maintenance burden) and candid postmortems on data sync approach
  • Remote-team innovation and accountability systems (OKRs, pairing, weekly calibration/celebration, sponsored mini-projects)

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Languages

English

Skills

AccessibilityAd delivery systemsAdvertising technologyAgile project planningAnalyticsASP.NETAWSAzureBudgetingBusiness intelligenceCGICloud migrationCloudFrontCoachingCompliance