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Marcelo Schmidt is Head of Support at Rocket.Chat based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with 13 years of experience bridging hands-on engineering and customer-facing leadership. He began as a full‑stack developer and remains an active open-source contributor to the Rocket.Chat repo, focusing on front‑end UI components and package-level back‑end work for a platform used by millions. Over his tenure he moved into operations and people leadership—serving as Interim COO and Program Manager—while personally shaping company culture and organizing three global summits. Marcelo also brings atypical breadth for an engineer: he has built financial reports that inform strategy, written contracts, led hiring, and created integrations between core systems to streamline operations. A remote-work advocate and MBA in IT Management student, he balances scaling product and support excellence with family life, having watched his son grow while helping Rocket.Chat expand.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at UFRGS
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1236 commits, 293 PRs, 812 pushes in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcelo's contributions primarily involve front-end development, with a focus on enhancing the user interface and functionality of a messaging platform. This includes creating UI components with HTML and CSS for styling and displaying information as well as managing states. The user also has involvement in back-end development as they make changes to the package files.
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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