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Fred Stevens-Smith

Fred Stevens-Smith is the CEO and co-founder of Rainforest QA, responsible for shaping the company’s business direction and company culture. Fred was accepted into Y-Combinator in 2012, where he and Rainforest co-founder and CTO, Russell Smith, conceived of and built the current iteration of the company after talking to fellow startups about their most pressing pain point – quality assurance testing. Originally from England, Fred has an Economics and Politics degree from the University of Warwick.

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Tax Day IT Lessons, or How to Avoid Wiping Out on Your Biggest Day of the Year

This time last year, as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) geared up for its biggest day of the year, a firmware bug deep in its storage network was waiting to take down the system. When Tax Day arrived, the onslaught of last-minute filers triggered a systemwide outage that lasted 11 hours and forced the IRS […]

Apr 12, 2019 · 3 min

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What Google’s ‘Digital Wellbeing’ Means for Every App Developer

One of the big themes to emerge from Google’s recent I/O conference was Digital Wellbeing—the notion that technology should be a positive force in our lives, and that we need ways to disconnect from apps when they suck up too much time or distract us in other ways. Google is taking the idea seriously, and […]

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What Developers Can Learn from Apple’s iOS Woes

Apple’s decision to delay new features in iOS to address performance and quality issues is a setback for the company, but it also holds valuable lessons for software developers and dev teams about the environment we work in today. A recent report said Apple plans to pull back on several new iOS features until next […]

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