Roderick Smith
Server And Cloud Certification Engineer
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolRoderick Smith is a Server and Cloud Certification Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience testing and certifying server hardware for Ubuntu at Canonical, blending deep Linux expertise with practical lab work and technical writing. A former independent consultant and prolific author of over 20 books and many articles, he translates complex technical and psychological concepts into clear, usable documentation and test software. His academic background—PhD in cognitive psychology—gives him an atypical edge in understanding user behavior and designing experiments, which informs his methodical approach to systems validation. Based in Woonsocket, RI, he combines hardware installation, automated test development, and long-form communication to ensure interoperable, well-documented infrastructure solutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Cognitive Psychology, MA, Cognitive Psychology at University of MichiganPhD, Cognitive Psychology, PhD, Cognitive Psychology at Tufts UniversityBA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at Oberlin College
Github Skills (9)
checker9
snap8
react7
checkbox7
nodejs7
monorepo6
lerna6
typescript6
nextjs6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rodwsmith/testflinger-docker
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
canonical/serverlab-testflinger
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
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