About
Ty is a Principal Engineer at Uber where he leads the Mobile Platform group and is the chairman of Uber's Open-Source program. He has a passion for tools, frameworks, developer productivity, and open-source to help developers make great mobile apps. He is a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin, engaging regularly with the community through conferences, open-source, and writing, as well as an organizer for conferences and meetups. He is an angel investor and tech advisor, as well as a limited partner in multiple venture capital advisory syndicates. Ty has been at Uber for 7 years and prior to that he worked at Twitter on the Fabric developer tools, Evernote, and a variety of smaller startups and consulting firms.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 41 investors at Uber are tracked.
- • 10 investors hold the Principal Software Engineer role in VCSift. Ty Smith is one of them.
- • 7,285 investors are based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- San Francisco, US
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