Keith Smiley

keithbsmiley@gmail.com | github.com/keith


Lyft

  • Migrated multi-million line iOS codebase to the Bazel build system
  • Moved mobile CI in house, decreasing build times more than 75%
  • Worked on a small team to ship Lyft’s largest ever app redesign
  • Founded and led the mobile developer experience team

Bazel

  • Contributed over 1,500 pull requests to the Bazel ecosystem
  • Became lead maintainer of Bazel’s Apple platform support in 2020
  • Spoke and hosted round table discussions at every BazelCon since 2019
  • Received Google’s Open Source Peer Bonus award in 2023

MNF

  • Launched the Mobile Native Foundation with the Linux Foundation in 2021
  • Provided a place to collaborate on improving large-scale mobile app development
  • Enabled the donation of Fastlane, one of the largest open source mobile focused projects
  • Added many other projects that are core to building modern mobile apps

Open Source

  • Envoy proxy build system maintainer
  • LLVM committer, significant contributor to ld64.lld
  • Swift committer
  • CocoaPods core team alumni

Experience

  • Principal Engineer - Lyft (2015 - Present)
    • Infrastructure tech lead focused on mobile developer experience
  • Cocoa Developer - thoughtbot (2014 - 2015)
    • Developed high quality iOS and OS X applications for clients of all sizes
  • iOS Developer - Bartlett Tree Experts (2012 - 2014)
    • Created and maintained an internal iOS application
  • Student - Winthrop University (2011 - 2014)
    • BS in Computer Science

Talks

Podcasts