Summary
Geoffrey Smith is a versatile automation specialist with 14 years of experience designing and maintaining test frameworks, CI pipelines, and tooling primarily in Ruby and Java for large enterprise systems. At Nationwide he helped redefine automation strategy, built reusable gems for database restoration and file handling, led major refactors to modern frameworks, and served as an automation SME across multiple lines. He combines deep practical knowledge of agile practices, TDD/ATDD, and CI with hands-on systems and hardware skills—able to both architect test infrastructure and troubleshoot machines end-to-end. Geoffrey also mentors developers and interns, runs Jenkins environments, and has a track record of turning brittle regression suites into maintainable, repeatable automation assets. Notably, he created internal tools that enforce clean test data rollback and standardized file/report automation, improving both reliability and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and Information Science, Software Development, BS Computer and Information Science, Software Development at The Ohio State University