Brent Schmidt
Software Engineer at The Smyth Group
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Schmidt is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web and PC products, now based in Boston. He has led complex front-end and infrastructure projects—most recently at O'Reilly where he modernized legacy systems, built accessible React component libraries, and reduced E2E test times by up to 80% through Argo workflows. His background spans browser extensions, Kubernetes automation, and developer experience improvements like rolling out Development Containers across hundreds of projects. Earlier work in game development honed his systems thinking and tooling skills, from server persistence to C# content tools, giving him a rare blend of product-focused design and hands-on engineering. Friendly and collaborative, he often tackles cross-disciplinary problems that improve maintainability and developer productivity. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and migration strategies that make large codebases safer to evolve.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Drafting and Mechanical Drafting CAD/CADD, Mechanical Drafting and Mechanical Drafting CAD/CADD at Harper CollegePalatine High School
Github Skills (147)
package-management10
testing10
integrations10
css-loader10
fits10
e2e10
html-webpack-plugin10
photoswipe10
cypress-plugin10
react-testing-library10
api10
azure-devops10
inline-styles10
cli10
dependency-manager10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tvsbrent/wp-smurfy-mech-data
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
tvsbrent/angular-cli
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
CLI tool for Angular
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
cli-tooltypescriptangularcli
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