Summary
Ross Smith is a seasoned software professional with 15 years of experience building research applications, enterprise solutions, and customer-facing web/mobile systems, currently serving as Sr Analyst/Developer for Research Applications at the University of Michigan. He blends hands-on engineering and architecture from roles as Chief Architect and Owner of an HTML5 web/mobile firm to drive pragmatic modernization of legacy systems—hence his tagline, "Transforming Yesterday's Software Today." Ross has led multidisciplinary teams, run a nonprofit makerspace as president, and repeatedly automated workflows and asset pipelines to accelerate delivery. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and scripting languages, he brings a practical, tools-first mindset that surfaces in his history of developing configurators, automation, and infrastructure for complex projects.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan