Robert Smith
Board Member at Better Together Solutions
Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Top SchoolRobert Smith is a community-focused software engineer and board member with 11 years of experience building Accessible Community Technology (ACT) using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript to help communities tackle climate change and social justice. As co-founder of Better Together Community and founder of open-data-rescue initiatives, he combines full-stack development, DevOps, and on-prem/cloud hosting to deliver inclusive, open-source platforms like the Better Together Community Engine and ClimateDataRescue. He advises SMEs and non-profits on tooling and infrastructure—spanning Discourse, NextCloud, Spree/Solidus, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Heroku—translating multi-stakeholder goals into practical, community-centered systems. Based in Corner Brook, NL, he is an advocate for cooperatives and plans to co-found the province’s first multi-stakeholder platform and worker cooperative to steward the Community Engine, reflecting a rare blend of technical craft and cooperative governance ambition.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Development, Sales and Generative AI, Professional Development, Sales and Generative AI at Keyin CollegeBachelor of Arts (BA), Anthropology and Geography minor in GIS, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Anthropology and Geography minor in GIS at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (200)
jquery-plugin10
community-engine10
entity-relationship10
ruby10
digitization10
trumbowyg10
rescue10
relationship10
transcription10
science10
hstore10
rails10
wai10
combobox10
accessibility10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
collective-interchange-coop/newcomer-navigator-nl
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 78 PRs, 241 pushes in 6 months
better-together-org/better-together-vue
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Better Together is a cooperative community engagement platform built and maintained by its members.
Contributions:53 PRs, 104 pushes, 58 branches in 4 years 2 months
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