Andrew Schmidt
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Schmidt is a Senior Software Engineer and former experimental physicist who brings a decade of experience building secure, production-grade C++ distributed systems and another decade of deep expertise in quantum materials and experimental measurement. At Meraki he modernized a Windows system agent to C++17 and C++/WinRT, improved security and memory safety, and established CI pipelines for Windows builds, while earlier work at IBM/HCL focused on cryptographic controls for BigFix (including a patent-pending approach to dynamic crypto module selection). He pairs whole-systems thinking from cryogenic quantum labs with pragmatic engineering—reducing noise and test flakiness through automation and rigorous threat modeling—to deliver reliable, maintainable software. Comfortable across low-level systems, build/devops, and front-end UX tweaks (notably contributing UI improvements to the popular Aave interface), he mentors engineers and shapes hiring for C++ Windows expertise. Based in South San Francisco, he blends academic rigor with enterprise impact and a taste for defiant brevity, as hinted by his GitHub motto μολὼν λαβέ.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at Cornell UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
rails-i18n9
ui-design9
ember-i18n9
ava9
i18n-js9
user-interface8
interface-design8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aave/interface
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
An open source interface for the decentralized liquidity protocol Aave
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:533 reviews, 257 commits, 370 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the Aave interface by implementing new features related to the total dashboard APYs, repay with dust warnings, and net APY tooltips. They also worked on updating FAQ links and refactoring various warning and detail components. The commits include UI adjustments, i18n integration for localization, and styling modifications to improve the user experience.
ethereum-contractethereumblockchaindecentralizeddapps-development
defispartan/defispartan.dev
Dec 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:26 PRs, 30 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 2 months
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