# Justin Smith

> Founding Product Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/justinsmith

Senior front-end engineer with over 15 years of technical product experience. I've built innovative products and led large teams. I'm really good at working at the intersection of technical problem solving, design, and product.

## Work Experience
### Founding Product Engineer @ Resolve AI
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Resolve AI is building an AI Production Engineer, which autonomously troubleshoots and resolves production issues and handles operational tasks, dramatically reducing MTTR and freeing up engineers to focus on building. By combining a deep understanding of production environments with state-of-the-art agentic AI, Resolve aims to accelerate how engineers build, deploy, and maintain real-world software systems.

### Senior Principal UI / UX Architect @ Splunk
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024
Splunk Observability UI Architect.

### UI / UX Architect @ Omnition
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building the next generation of application monitoring tools. Rethinking observability. User experience and front-end lead.

(Acquired by Splunk)

### Staff Engineer 2 @ VMware
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
Product: Unannounced SaaS-Based Product

• Senior frontend architect of a visualization engine component utilizing latest web technologies. Supporting search, filtering, and detail panes to facilitate data exploration. Specifically focused on visual rendering pipeline and overall application state management.
• Provided significant design research of the application topology visualization space, working closely with product owners on an on-going basis to quickly iterate through design ideas.
• Technologies: Typescript, Angular 5, Three.js, WebGL

Product: Log Intelligence (SaaS-Based Logging Analytics Solution)

• Lead frontend architect and team lead of seven frontend engineers on a new SaaS-based Log Analytics Solution built from the ground up using modern UI frameworks. Leveraged design ideas from existing product to move quickly, but improved code to use modern tools and techniques, improving developer productivity. Mentored existing developers into the new design ideas.
• Known for rapid design iterations and having a full understanding of how the full stack comes together to solve problems.
• Key contributor to user facing features, such as a query language grammar, custom data visualizations, and an in-browser anomaly detection analytics pipeline.
• Technologies: Typescript, Angular 5, D3, Highcharts, Karma / Jasmine, Peg.js, Gerrit, Jenkins

Product: vRealize Operations Manager

• Led a visual redesign effort for the product as part of an increased customer experience initiative, including a modern tech stack, simplifying major workflows and giving the product a new look and feel.
• Spearheaded new application framework design using React and Redux, increasing page speed by an order of magnitude. Ultimately could not pursue due to legal licensing concerns.
• Technologies: Typescript, Angular 5, React, Redux, D3

### Staff Engineer 1 @ VMware
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
Product: vRealize Operations Manager

• Frontend engineer on an intelligent IT operations management solution. Product was the flagship application of management business unit, leading the entire business unit to one billion dollars in sales.
• Developed and maintained common components and state management parts of the application, including routing handlers, and navigation controllers.
• On-camera personality in documentation videos, visually demonstrating key parts of the product to customers.
• Technologies: Javascript, ExtJS, D3, Highcharts, Java

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA
Product: vRealize Operations Manager

• Frontend engineer responsible for unifying two product lines into a single application.
• Developed and maintained common components and state management parts of the application, including routing handlers, and navigation controllers.
• Technologies: Javascript, ExtJS, GWT, Java

### Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | Palo Alto, CA
Product: CapacityIQ

• Frontend engineer on a datacenter capacity planning application.

Product: Capacity Manager

• Frontend engineer on a Datacenter migration assessment tool.


## Education
### Auburn University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justin-smith-7b1534a8

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Last updated: 2026-04-05