Welcoming Keith Smiley

We're excited to share that Keith Smiley is joining BuildBuddy's engineering team. Keith brings an incredible depth of experience in build systems and developer tooling that will directly benefit our users and the broader Bazel ecosystem.

Keith is a maintainer of Bazel's rules_apple and rules_swift, contributing over 1,500 pull requests to the Bazel ecosystem. Beyond Bazel, Keith is a contributor to both LLVM and Swift. In 2021, he launched the Mobile Native Foundation with the Linux Foundation, and in 2023 he received Google's Open Source Peer Bonus award for his contributions.

Keith joins us from Modular, where he was a Senior Staff Engineer focused on developer experience. Prior to Modular, Keith was a Principal Engineer at Lyft, where he founded and led their mobile developer experience team, and migrated their multi-million line iOS codebase to Bazel.

We look forward to working alongside Keith to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, Keith!