# Shae Smith

Shae Smith is a remote worker on Himalayas, Creative Operations Engineer at Epic Games, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@shaesmith1

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I build production AI automation systems that replace manual work at scale.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 150k+ USD |
| Job categories | Software Engineer, Technical Product Manager, Technical Lead, Engineering Manager |
| Skills | Portfolio Management, Program Management, Roadmap Prioritization, Resource Allocation, Trade Offs, Delivery Analytics, Jira, Asana, Trello, Confluence, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Build Or Buy, Budget Ownership, Agentic Systems, Model Context Protocol, Claude APIs, ClaudeVision, RAG Pipeline, Workato, Playwright, GitHub Co Pilot, Claude Code, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Elixir, PHP, SQL, React, Next.js, NodeJS, GraphQL, REST, AWS, AWS Lambda, Istio, Docker, CI CD, Airtable, PostgreSQL, Distributed Team Management, Hiring, Mentorship, Cross Functional Partnership, Stakeholder Management, SOC2 Compliance |
| Website | https://shaebryantsmith.dev |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/shaebryantsmith |
| GitHub | https://github.com/sbsmith86 |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm looking to lead product-minded engineering and AI automation work where I can turn operational problems into reliable production systems, make clear build-versus-buy tradeoffs, and connect engineering execution with business priorities.
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## About

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At Epic Games, I build and run production AI and automation systems for creative operations, including a Fortnite localization and publishing pipeline, a Claude Vision visual-QC workflow, and a permission-scoped MCP server. My work turns hours of manual review and release work into minutes while supporting high-volume production systems.

I've led engineering, product, and delivery from founding Lantern through its 2023 acquisition, owning its roadmap, technology budget, React design system, and distributed team. Across startups and organizations including GoTo Foods, IHG, DoSomething.org, and Teachers Pay Teachers, I've translated business tradeoffs into shipped platforms, APIs, and operational improvements.
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## Experience

### Creative Operations Engineer (current)

[Epic Games](https://himalayas.app/companies/epic-games). Aug 2025 - Present

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Embedded with creative-services and publishing-operations teams; build and run five production AI/automation systems that replace manual creative-ops work at scale.
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Skills: AI, Automation, Agentic-Systems, MCP, Claude-APIs, ClaudeVision, AWS-Lambda, TypeScript, Airtable, Workato, Jira, CI-CD

### Technical Product Manager

GoTo Foods. Jan 2025 - May 2025

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Owned the platform team's backlog and roadmap prioritization across 7 national restaurant brands, aligning engineering execution with business objectives. Led an API versioning strategy using Istio traffic routing and drove a POS-to-CMS content import/export automation.
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Skills: Product-Management, Roadmap-Prioritization, Backlog-Management, Confluence, Istio, API-Versioning, Automation

### Technical Product Manager

Yomi. Jan 2024 - May 2025

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Spearheaded product strategy and delivery for a healthcare practice-management platform. Introduced a Kanban operating model and owned end-to-end feature delivery including wearable integrations, patient dashboards, admin tooling, and SSO.
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Skills: Product-Management, Kanban, Figma, GitHub-Co-Pilot, Claude, SSO, Wearable-Integrations

### Technical Lead

[IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group)](https://himalayas.app/companies/ihg). Jan 2024 - Jul 2024

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Led delivery of a new GraphQL API layer, improving performance by 20% with 100% on-time delivery. Managed scope, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies with engineering and QA.
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Skills: GraphQL, API-Development, Performance-Optimization, Project-Management, QA, Health-Checks

### Lead Engineer

Climb Credit. Jan 2023 - May 2023

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Defined technical requirements aligned with business goals, establishing a data-driven decision framework. Led Agile sprint planning and delivery cadence, iterating on features to improve loan repayment metrics.
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Skills: Agile, Sprint-Planning, Data-Driven-Decision-Making, Feature-Development

### Founding Engineer, Technical & Product Lead

Lantern. Jun 2019 - Jan 2023

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Founding engineer who built the platform from zero and carried it through to its 2023 acquisition. Owned the technical roadmap, managed a distributed team of 3 engineers, and led a multi-quarter platform migration and SOC 2 compliance initiative.
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Skills: React, NodeJS, PHP, AWS, SOC2, Team-Management, Technical-Roadmap, Migration

### Software Engineer

Teachers Pay Teachers. Jul 2018 - Jun 2019

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Built search features on a marketplace serving millions of educators using React, Elixir, and GraphQL, on a cross-functional Agile team.
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Skills: React, Elixir, GraphQL, Agile, Search

### Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead

DoSomething.org. Oct 2014 - Jul 2018

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Technical Lead for a team of 3 engineers building and maintaining core web services. Led a user-generated-content service end to end and maintained the core user-identity service.
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Skills: Web-Services, User-Generated-Content, Identity, Team-Leadership, Documentation

### Frontend Developer

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Jan 2013 - Dec 2014

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Frontend developer role at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
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### Senior Manager of Online Production

GLAAD. Nov 2010 - Dec 2013

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Led technical production for glaad.org (Drupal 7): custom modules, content architecture, frontend; ran marketing email and multimedia campaigns.
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Skills: Drupal, Content-Architecture, Frontend-Development, Email-Marketing, Multimedia

### Data Analyst

Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

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Data analyst role at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
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### Consultant

[Condé Nast](https://himalayas.app/companies/conde-nast). Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

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Consultant role at Condé Nast.
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## Education

### Smith College

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science

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Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Smith College, completed in 2008.
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## Tech stack

- PostgreSQL
- Node.js
- Next.js
- Jira
- React
- JavaScript
- Python
- PHP
- Elixir
- Istio
- Confluence
- Trello
- Asana
- GraphQL
- AWS Lambda
- TypeScript
- Docker
- SQL
- Workato
- Airtable
- Playwright
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code

To contact Shae, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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