Dave Smart
Technical SEO at Tame the Bots
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDave Smart is a Technical SEO specialist and web developer with over two decades of hands-on website experience and eight years focused on professional SEO practice at Tame the Bots. Based in England, he combines deep JavaScript and technical SEO expertise with practical DevOps skills demonstrated through contributions to Rendertron, where he improved caching, logging, resource management and test coverage for a Headless Chrome rendering solution. A Google Webmaster Central Product Expert, he bridges developer workflows and search-engine best practices to solve indexing and rendering challenges for modern web apps. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that improve stability and SEO visibility rather than theoretical audits, and his background shows a rare mix of legacy web knowledge and current headless-rendering experience.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (16)
rendering10
caching10
puppeteer10
javascript10
nodejs10
chrome10
render10
chromeless10
headless-browser10
testing10
koa9
cicd8
nuxt6
vue6
vuejs26
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleChrome/rendertron
May 2020 - Dec 2020
A Headless Chrome rendering solution
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 40 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dave focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Rendertron project. Their contributions include fixing a filesystem cache bug, implementing an invalidate endpoint, and adding logging for debugging purposes. Furthermore, the user introduced configuration options to control browser closing behavior, impacting resource management and stability, and made improvements to the project's base URL handling. They also worked on improving tests to cover more test cases, including testing the cache clear functionality.
chromerenderingheadless-chromeseopuppeteer
dwsmart/gpiggy
Mar 2019 - Jul 2023
External Routing in Nuxt Example
Contributions:25 PRs, 41 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 5 months
nuxtnuxt-exampleroutingvuenuxtjs
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