# Joshua Smith > Software Engineer @ Gamma Location: Albany, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuasmith IC software engineering leader with over a decade of experience at Asana and Gamma, excited by opportunities to lead teams and deliver easy to use product experiences. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Gamma Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### AI Experience Area Tech Lead @ Asana Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 IC leader for Asana's 3 AI focused product teams. Captained the launch of Asana's first set of LLM backed features meeting tight deadlines to bring the features to market. ### IC Engineering Leader @ Asana Jan 2012 – Jan 2024 I have owned key organizational responsibilities throughout my career at Asana including: - Tech Lead Experience - I rolled out a TL health check process to provide managers with better visibility into the capacity of their tech leads and address workload challenges. - Project Eng Lead Training -> I created and documented the project eng lead responsibility which I had first adopted on the Core Experience team. I ran a publicity campaign for these resources leading to the responsibility being adopted by 80% of R&D teams. - Off-sprints -> I revived the culture of off-sprints at Asana by synchronizing off-sprints across teams, creating a system to match new engineers to problem spaces, and measuring their effectiveness. These efforts ensure critical understaffed areas like internal tooling and recruiting received enough attention. ### Land Area Tech Lead @ Asana Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Technical Leader for 6 teams focused on driving new user adoption and invites. Worked with partners to develop a goal-setting system to drive strategic alignment. Surpassed goals to increased the number of adopted users by 40%. Spearheaded the formation of the Sharing & Permissions Initiative, creating a 3-team roadmap to upgrade Asana's permission system to be enterprise quality. ### Core Experience Team Tech Lead @ Asana Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Led the redesign of the core project list view and task pane, shipping both redesigns in a 9 month span. Boosted task creation by 11% and increased other key collaboration metrics. Grew the skills of team members through clear delegation and coaching leading to 4 team members becoming Tech Leads of their own teams over the course of these two years. ### Page Load Performance Engineer & Team Tech Lead @ Asana Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Transformed page load performance from existential threat to competitive advantage over the course of a year and a half. Improved page loads under 3 seconds from 2% of page loads to 40% in 6 months by serving html from a new purpose built service, decreasing bundle size, and adopting page load performance best practices. ### Performance Team Tech Lead @ Asana Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 Led an initiative to relaunch Asana's core features on the new LunaUi framework shifting the company's codebase to a modern TypeScript and React stack and improving front-end responsiveness. ### Software Engineer @ Asana Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Developed early Asana features including Inbox, Organizations, Calendar, and Dashboards. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Asana Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco ### Course Assistance @ Johns Hopkins University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Assist students with functional programming in OCaml and the concepts of theoretical programming languages. ### Lead Kayaking Instructor @ Johns Hopkins University Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 Guide novice kayakers during day trips on river and roll sessions in the pool. Teach safety and interpersonal skills to incoming instructors during single day and overnight trips. Grow as an instructor, leader, and teammate through regular group evaluations and trip assessments. ### Course Assistant : Introduction to Java @ Johns Hopkins University Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Intro to Programming in Java: Assisted students with homework and test preparation through office hours and review sessions. ### Financial Software Development Intern @ Bloomberg L.P Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | New York, NY API Infrastructure Team : Financial Software Development Intern : Summer 2011 - Created an audit tool to monitor the consistency of thousands of real-time caches on machines in the API network. Trading Systems - Automated Investment Management Team : FSD Intern : Summer 2010 - Provided teams with a reusable component for saving user preferences related to their products. - Combined a number of functions into one interface to create a seamless environment for the user. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Raytheon Company Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Wrote fully automated Perl scripts to create a simplified on site hard drive recovery procedure. - Facilitated the release of a toolset responsible for setting up radar operating systems by recreating product views in Rational Apex and propelling the review process towards completion. ## Education ### BS in Computer Science The Johns Hopkins University ### Pre-college in Business University of Pennsylvania ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josh211ua --- Source: https://flows.cv/joshuasmith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshuasmith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11