Bryce Schmidt
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryce Schmidt is a Principal Software Engineer in Minneapolis with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile backends, currently shaping platform-level work at Microsoft. He brings deep practical expertise in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, C/C++, Java, and Python, paired with a strong mathematical foundation in numerical methods, optimization, and modeling. Bryce has driven API and service-oriented transitions—shipping video transcoding and storage services for mobile clients at Flipgrid and helping break monoliths into multi-service architectures at Sport Ngin. Comfortable bridging product, design, and engineering, he focuses on data-driven, well-modeled solutions that balance performance with user experience. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of applied math instincts and hands-on systems craftsmanship, which helps him reason about both algorithmic and operational trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor of Arts, Mathematical Sciences; Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematical Sciences; Mathematical Sciences at Bethel College
Github Skills (8)
oauth2-client6
authentication6
oauth2-provider6
omniauth6
oauth5
rails5
devise5
ruby4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brycesch/devise_oauth2_providable
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Rails3 engine integrating OAuth2 authentication with Devise
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 7 months
oauth2-authenticationrailsauthenticationomniauthruby
sportnginlegacy/active_mongoid
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 month
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