Tyler Smith is a seasoned developer with 15 years of experience building web and backend systems, currently driving product development at UserVoice from Wichita, Kansas. He has a strong background in cloud networking and open-source, having contributed substantial test automation and bug fixes to OpenStack Neutron while at Cisco. Comfortable across stacks—from PHP/MySQL and frontend work in early consulting to Ruby and modern backend testing—he focuses on reliable, well-tested systems that scale. Tyler is passionate about reinventing how data is stored and interacted with, and brings a pragmatic, QA-minded approach to engineering that surfaces subtle integration issues before they reach production.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Wichita State University
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:43 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tyler contributed significantly to the test suite of the OpenStack Neutron project. They wrote and updated unit tests for the Cisco plugin, specifically for the multi-blade and UCS functionalities. Their work involved creating, deleting, and modifying tests to cover various API calls and scenarios, and they also added tests for port-related operations. Furthermore, they fixed bugs and made improvements to the test code.
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