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Arthur Smith, Product Engineer

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§ About

Arthur Smith. Product engineer, researcher, teacher.

I’m a full-stack product engineer shipping SaaS features end-to-end — discovery, production, iteration. I live in PostHog daily and build across React, TypeScript, Django, and infrastructure. Based in Nashville with my wife and two boys.

§ At a glance
i. Tenure
8+
Years shipping SaaS end-to-end
ii. Teaching
6+
Years instructing at Nashville Software School
iii. Instrumented
4
Production apps fully instrumented with PostHog

Numbers rounded conservatively · specifics available on request.

§ 01 · My Story

I’m a product engineer with 8+ years shipping SaaS features end-to-end. My career has been defined by a simple belief: the best products come from people who own the full loop — discovery, production, and iteration.

I started in healthcare and edtech startups, where I wore multiple hats — conducting user interviews, running usability tests, and shipping the features I helped define. That early experience taught me that great products require continuous discovery, not just good execution.

From there, I moved into B2B2C platforms and enterprise financial services, leading product ownership, building A/B testing infrastructure, and managing research studies with thousands of participants. At every stop, I’ve pushed for a Measure → Understand → Experiment → Decide loop.

Today, I live in PostHog daily — analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments — and build with Claude Code multi-agent workflows, custom discovery tooling, and whatever it takes to ship. Most recently I architected a frontend extraction from a Django monolith to a Turborepo monorepo, taking a new repo from empty to production in two weeks.

§ 02 · Career
2026 –
Senior Frontend Engineer
ZipLiens
Nashville · Remote
2025
Senior Frontend Engineer & Product Partner
360 Privacy
Nashville
2022 – 2025
Senior UX Engineer / Product Owner
JumpCrew
Nashville
2020 – 2022
AVP, Software & Accessibility Engineer
AllianceBernstein
Nashville
2018 – 2020
Software & UX Engineer
Healthcare & EdTech Startups
Nashville
2019 –
Instructor (Contract)
Nashville Software School
Ongoing
§ 03 · Skills
Product
  • Discovery & research
  • A/B testing & experiments
  • PostHog analytics
  • Roadmap prioritization
Design
  • Design systems
  • Figma
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Interaction design
Engineering
  • React, TypeScript, Next.js
  • Python / Django
  • Node / Express
  • Turborepo monorepos
  • Claude Code workflows
§ 04 · Teaching

Teaching at Nashville Software School

Teaching at NSS has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my career. I work with students who are making significant life changes, leaving previous careers to pursue software development.

I focus on teaching not just the technical skills, but also the problem-solving mindset and collaboration skills that make great developers. My goal is to prepare students not just to pass interviews, but to thrive in their first roles.

“Watching students grow from writing their first lines of code to building full-stack applications is the closest thing I’ve found to seeing the discovery loop run at human speed.”
§ 05 · Outside of work

My world revolves around my wife and two boys. We live in Nashville, and most of my free time is spent with them — exploring the city, working on projects around the house, or just being present for the everyday moments.

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