Blake Schmidt
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Schmidt is a Software Engineer II with nine years of industry experience building scalable AI and cloud services, currently focused on search relevance at Microsoft after roles across Amazon’s security and computer vision teams. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with an AI specialization and a Physics degree in Space Sciences from UT Austin, a background that informs his data-driven approach to complex systems. At The Home Depot he built marketing and advertising infrastructure, and at AWS he worked on Rekognition/Bedrock data automation—demonstrating a track record of shipping production ML and data engineering solutions. Blake combines strong engineering fundamentals with domain curiosity, having moved from physics and mechanical studies into applied AI, and he’s comfortable navigating both product-facing and security-sensitive technical challenges.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Physics - Space Sciences; Elements of Computing Certificate, Physics, Physics - Space Sciences; Elements of Computing Certificate, Physics at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Highland Park High SchoolMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Austin Community College
English
Github Skills (16)
aws9
cloud-infrastructure8
typescript8
development-kit8
terraform7
aws-cloud7
infrastructure7
infrastructure-as-code7
cloud-development-kit7
protobuf6
protocol-buffers5
golang5
splunk4
docker-image4
go3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
blakecschmidt/Bing-Search
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
blakecschmidt/PriceAlert
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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