Robert Smith
Board Member at Newfoundland-Labrador Federation of Co-operatives
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 (154)
jquery-plugin10
community-engine10
digitization10
trumbowyg10
transcription10
entity-relationship-diagram10
html10
science10
bootstrap-vue10
rails10
accessibility10
docker10
bootstrap10
week-calendar10
archives10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
open-data-rescue/climate-data-rescue
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Climate Data Rescue is an archival data rescue platform using Ruby on Rails.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 667 commits in 7 years 5 months
ruby-on-railstranscriptiondata-rescuedigitizationcitizen-science
NL-Venues/nl-venues
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Better Together Rails is a turnkey community platform leveraging the Community Engine to provide an accessible open source community platform that's Democratic by Design.
Contributions:4 reviews, 65 PRs, 206 pushes in 1 year 4 months
rails
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