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Willem Smith

@willemsmith

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I build and ship production full-stack platforms, from real-time learning systems to AI-powered desktop products.

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and own production systems end to end, especially full-stack platforms and agentic AI products where I can apply technical leadership, microservices architecture, and DevOps automation.

I've built Cormonity end-to-end as a solo engineer: a community-native learning platform with LMS, community, credentials, and analytics products now live with UAE training institutes onboarding.

I designed its Vue 3, NestJS, and PostgreSQL stack, native Capacitor apps, real-time MQTT and Socket.IO messaging, and Kubernetes CI/CD behind Cloudflare. I also built tamper-evident digital credentials with QR verification, HMAC-signed URLs, and Arabic RTL certificate rendering.

At Ratchet Capital, I delivered full-stack products including Megastars.ai, supporting 500+ active influencers at 99.9% uptime and 10K+ daily authentication requests. I led a four-developer team on a Dockerized microservices platform and shipped rolling deployments with automated rollback on DigitalOcean.

I'm also building agentic AI products, including Jarvis, a native macOS voice assistant using SwiftUI, Node.js, Claude Agent SDK, and llama.cpp. My foundation in C/C++, Unix, networking, and concurrency comes from 42 Abu Dhabi, where I now mentor peers on build systems and memory management.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Founder & Lead Engineer

Current

Cormonity

Dec 2025 - Present (10 months)

Designed and built a community-native learning platform end-to-end as a solo engineer, including a verifiable digital-credential system and production-grade engineering discipline with 1,500+ automated tests.

Vue3 NestJS PostgreSQL Capacitor MQTT Socket.IO Kubernetes Cloudflare SHA 256 HMAC CI CD Docker TypeScript JavaScript AI Agent Development

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Student Tutor & Mentor

Current

42 Abu Dhabi

Aug 2022 - Present (4 years 2 months)

Mentor peers on build systems (Makefiles), memory-management practices, and clean C/C++ at 42 Abu Dhabi.

C C++Makefiles Memory Management Mentorship

Embedded Software Developer

Suportech Embedded

Apr 2026 - Aug 2026 (4 months)

Developed desktop software in Python with automated CI/CD release delivery and implemented data security with envelope encryption. Built an application updater with a CI/CD pipeline and authored unit tests on GitHub Actions.

Python PyQt Flask CI CD Envelope Encryption DEK KEK GitHub Actions Unit Testing

Full Stack Developer

Ratchet Capital

Apr 2024 - Apr 2026 (2 years)

Shipped through a code-review-gated Git workflow with feature branches reviewed before merging to dev, and weekly dev to main production releases.

Git Code Review CI CD Fullstack Development

Software Engineering Trainee

42 Abu Dhabi

Jan 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 11 months)

Full-time, project-based engineering programme: built and shipped peer-evaluated systems in low-level C/C++, Unix, networking, concurrency, and DevOps.

C C++Unix Networking Concurrency DevOps

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

42 Abu Dhabi

Common Core Certification, Software Engineering

2021 - 2023

Activities and societies: Student Tutor & Mentor (part-time) from Aug 2022, mentoring peers on build systems, memory management, and clean C/C++.

Completed the Common Core, a full-time project-based software engineering programme, with a focus on low-level C/C++, Unix, networking, concurrency, and DevOps. Earned the Common Core Certification in November 2023.