Jared Smith is a director of software engineering in the proptech space and runs the Charleston Weather family of products, which gained notoriety on Twitter for fast, reliable weather updates for the Charleston, SC metro area. @chswx has since expanded onto other platforms as well as into the social Web (including the fediverse).
In 2017, Jared joined the Carolina Weather Group weather podcast as a regular panelist, discussing weather happenings for the Carolinas and beyond.
In previous lives, Jared was one half of the technical team at ReadWriteWeb (now known as ReadWrite) and a webmaster at his alma mater, College of Charleston, from where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2008.
With whatever time remains, he roots on the San Diego Padres from afar. (Keep the faith.)
Press Clippings
- Forecasts and Feeds: Avoiding fake news during extreme storms while leveraging Twitter to report the weather. Dustin Waters, Charleston City Paper, September 2017
- Quintin's Close-Ups: Jared Smith. Quintin Washington, Quintin's Close-Ups, September 2017
- The People Behind the Handles: Jared Smith. Candice Herriott, Charleston Food Writer, June 2016
- After 30,000 tweets and seven years, the forecast for @chswx shows no sign of letting up. Sam Spence, Charleston City Paper, October 2015
- Meet the Software Developer Responsible for One of the Super Bowl's Most Memorable Tweets. Rob Pegoraro, Yahoo Tech, February 2015