Education
University of Washington
Master of Science Degree
Magna Cum Laude
Computer Science and Engineering
2016 - 2020
Seattle, WA
Tufts University
Bachelor of Science Degree
Magna Cum Laude, Highest Honor in Thesis
Computer Science, Cognitive and Brain Science
2010 - 2014
Medford, MA
Experience
Riot Games
Staff Engineer
2020 - Present
Bellevue, WA
Currently working as a Staff enginner on VALORANT's Store team. Set technical direction and roadmap, architect full-stack solutions, drive cross-team culture and processes. Responsible for mentoring and growing team devs.
The Store team runs players' storefronts, generating unique offers and means of access to premium content through rotations, featured bundles, and special events including the Night.Market and RiotX Arcane
as well as partnerships including Loyalty Programs and XBOX Game Pass.
Work accross teams, disciplines, and time zones, to deliver large-scale features including shipping VALORANT in China, delivering VALORANT to Console, and building machine-learning driven store insights pipelines./div>
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Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
2014 - 2020
Redmond, WA
Worked in both Supply Chain Services and Universal Store Team, created cloud-based and full stack solutions for shopfloor controllers and applied machine learning. Coordinated directly with customers to develop fully featured front end interfaces.
Was responsible for mentoring and onboarding FTEs and interns. Lead small team in building new service portal for provisioning credit to customers. Owned the provisioning pipeline for resource creation and contributed to New Orleans stack for merchant services.
Tufts University Dept of Computer Science
Research Assistant
2010 - 2016
Redmond, WA
Conducted research with Professor Michael Levin, Director of Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology; and Professor Matthias Scheutz, Director of Tufts Human Robotic Interaction Lab. Studied computational modeling and analysis of biomechanics in organic tissue regeneration.
Published papers relating to agent-based simulation models of planarean morphegenics and of tree frog mating. Programmed an interface for general agent-based simulations for Tufts research. Was teaching assistant for special topics course Artifical Agents and Autonomy. I continue to help with research and implementation.
Publications
Exploring Male Spatial Placement Strategies in a Biologically Plausible Mating Task
Scheutz, M., Smiley, M., & Boyd S. K. (2013, April 15)
EEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore.
Computational models of distributed morphological representations and regenation for damaged structures
Smiley, M. (2014, May)
Tufts University
Senior Thesis with Highest Honors; embargoed for future research
Dynamic Structure Discovery and Monitoring for Self-Healing 3D Forms.
Ferrira G., Smiley M., Scheutz M., & Levin M. (2016, July 4)
ALIFE XV 2016, Cancun Mexico.
Projects & Actitivies
MaxBot, Discord Bot
Creator
2018 - Present
Seattle, WA
A bot that offers a wide variety of functionalities missing from Discord. Includes creating polls, subscription and announcements to custom topics, generating chains of reacts, birthday and event notifications, server metrics and much more.
Hackathons
Participant
2013 - Present
Multiple Venues
Tufts University 2013:Website usingEchoNest API to fuse any two songs in a melodic manner.
Tufts University 2014:Won 2nd place in Tuft’s Utility category for creating a website for auditing and planning majors.
Microsoft 2015:Cross-platform mobile app using Xamarin that provided dashboard for MS supply chain orders.
Microsoft 2016:Plugin for Skype that calculates the aggregate cost of meetings over time.
Mythos, Online Board Game
Developer & Visual Designer
2014 - Present
Seattle, WA
Built an online multiplayer deckbuilding game with a group of friends. Implemented in React framework. Head of design for interface, card design, and artwork.
Tufts Robotics Club
Vice President
2012 - 2014
Medford, MA
Led weekly meetings, taught coding tutorials for club members, managed website and GitHub repository. Managed coding department for club’s competitions. Ran monthly workshop with local elementary school students to teach basic robotics concepts.
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