Ray Smets
Chief Technology Officer at Verified Inc.- Claim this Profile
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Verified Inc.
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Mar 2023 - Present
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Lead Backend Engineer
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Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
Leading backend architecture, feature development, and infrastructure. Note: Verified.inc is formally Unum ID Core Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform (Terragrunt), Typescript (Feathers, Nest), Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), Verifiable Credentials (VCs)
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JT Labs
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Co-Founder
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Mar 2021 - Present
Co-Founded a LLC to provide decentralized web3 infrastructure. Co-Founded a LLC to provide decentralized web3 infrastructure.
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Nexkey, Inc.
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Backend Engineer
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Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Lead backend architecture, feature development, and infrastructure. Core Technologies: AWS (ECS), NodeJS (Parse Server), Java (Spring), MongoDB, Redis, Grafana Lead backend architecture, feature development, and infrastructure. Core Technologies: AWS (ECS), NodeJS (Parse Server), Java (Spring), MongoDB, Redis, Grafana
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Neustar, Inc.
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Data Management Platform team. Deep stack development responsibilities from the data model to backend features to front end UI / UX to introducing new technologies for integration tests. Put a considerable effort towards speeding up development & deployment lifecycle procedures. Most impactful and interesting development responsibility was redesigning Taxonomy licensing for Data Providers to have more granular control over the information they shared with Advertisers. Lead the… Show more Data Management Platform team. Deep stack development responsibilities from the data model to backend features to front end UI / UX to introducing new technologies for integration tests. Put a considerable effort towards speeding up development & deployment lifecycle procedures. Most impactful and interesting development responsibility was redesigning Taxonomy licensing for Data Providers to have more granular control over the information they shared with Advertisers. Lead the development work across the entire stack (Data model, backend feature dev, UI). In effort to shorten development time and increase developers fluidity I lead an integration testing push to move off of legacy Robot framework and on to Cypress.io. Involved convincing and teaching peers, building framework usability blocks from ground up, and implementing previously impossible integration tests spanning modern and legacy systems to ultimately speed up the org’s deployment process. Core Technologies: Java, Spring, React, Spark, Postgres, Docker, Python, Angular 2, Cypress.io (NodeJS) Show less Data Management Platform team. Deep stack development responsibilities from the data model to backend features to front end UI / UX to introducing new technologies for integration tests. Put a considerable effort towards speeding up development & deployment lifecycle procedures. Most impactful and interesting development responsibility was redesigning Taxonomy licensing for Data Providers to have more granular control over the information they shared with Advertisers. Lead the… Show more Data Management Platform team. Deep stack development responsibilities from the data model to backend features to front end UI / UX to introducing new technologies for integration tests. Put a considerable effort towards speeding up development & deployment lifecycle procedures. Most impactful and interesting development responsibility was redesigning Taxonomy licensing for Data Providers to have more granular control over the information they shared with Advertisers. Lead the development work across the entire stack (Data model, backend feature dev, UI). In effort to shorten development time and increase developers fluidity I lead an integration testing push to move off of legacy Robot framework and on to Cypress.io. Involved convincing and teaching peers, building framework usability blocks from ground up, and implementing previously impossible integration tests spanning modern and legacy systems to ultimately speed up the org’s deployment process. Core Technologies: Java, Spring, React, Spark, Postgres, Docker, Python, Angular 2, Cypress.io (NodeJS) Show less
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Sophos
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Cloud Web Gateway team. Responsible for architecting & leading development for: - The streaming Anti Virus sandbox infrastructure. - Prototyping the first of its kind Machine Learning proxy detection solution. - Realtime application layer monitoring & alerting for our global PoPs. Core Technologies: Java, Spring, AWS, Chef, Jenkins, Kafka, Zookeeper, Camel, Grafana, MongoDB, Memcached Cloud Web Gateway team. Responsible for architecting & leading development for: - The streaming Anti Virus sandbox infrastructure. - Prototyping the first of its kind Machine Learning proxy detection solution. - Realtime application layer monitoring & alerting for our global PoPs. Core Technologies: Java, Spring, AWS, Chef, Jenkins, Kafka, Zookeeper, Camel, Grafana, MongoDB, Memcached
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Mojave Networks
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Intern
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Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Mojave was acquired by Sophos Fall of 2014. Developing internal tools which have streamlined and automate the capturing and analysis of network activity of mobile applications for analysis, device management, and security threat monitoring by upwards of 500% increased efficiency. Mojave was acquired by Sophos Fall of 2014. Developing internal tools which have streamlined and automate the capturing and analysis of network activity of mobile applications for analysis, device management, and security threat monitoring by upwards of 500% increased efficiency.
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Novacoast
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Software Developer Intern
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Jun 2013 - Nov 2013
Worked on improving and reengineering internal applications and an emerging cloud MDM solution. Worked on improving and reengineering internal applications and an emerging cloud MDM solution.
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Metaswitch Networks
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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Jun 2012 - Sep 2012
• Designed, developed and implemented media codec transcoding improvements for a commercially deployed Session Border Controller and created a CLI to analyze which codecs were being transcoded in real time and most frequently. • Developed proficiency working with MIBs in order to improve the accuracy and readability of other Session Border Controller UIs in the areas of: security, connectivity, quality of service, and media services. • Designed, developed and implemented media codec transcoding improvements for a commercially deployed Session Border Controller and created a CLI to analyze which codecs were being transcoded in real time and most frequently. • Developed proficiency working with MIBs in order to improve the accuracy and readability of other Session Border Controller UIs in the areas of: security, connectivity, quality of service, and media services.
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Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology
MS, Cybersecurity -
University of California, Santa Barbara
BS, Computer Engineering -
Stanford University
Summer College, Computer Science -
Marist School
High School Diploma