Andrew Schmadel
Senior Director Of Engineering at Rocket Money
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Schmadel is a Senior Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience scaling product-focused startups and leading cross-functional teams at Rocket Money. He blends hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular Sequelize ORM around transaction handling, deadlock fixes, and improved type/docs—with strategic leadership in building reliable, production-grade systems. His career spans greenfield architecture and cloud infrastructure work at AI startups, mission-critical broadcast systems for the U.S. Senate, and applied research in physics, giving him a distinctive mix of engineering rigor and practical delivery. Based in Washington, D.C., he is comfortable moving between code and senior management, mentoring engineers while still diving into tricky database and infrastructure issues.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of St AndrewsBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at William & Mary
English
Github Skills (15)
sequel10
transaction10
javascript10
nodejs10
orm10
sequelizejs10
mysql9
mariadb9
typescript-types9
database9
postgresql9
typescript9
typescripts9
databases9
testing8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sequelize/sequelize
Feb 2019 - Jul 2022
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB, DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Sequelize ORM codebase, focusing on enhancing database transaction handling and fixing related bugs. Their commits addressed deadlock scenarios in MySQL and MariaDB by treating them as rollbacks. They also added documentation for hooks and improved type definitions. Additionally, they modified the Postgres connection management to attach an error handler earlier in the lifecycle.
db2jsonbmariadbmssqlservermysql
schmod/bs-fullscreen-message
Jul 2016 - Dec 2020
Fullscreen, in-browser error/success messages
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
errorjavascriptsuccessbrowser
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