Christopher Schmitz
Senior Software Engineer - Platform
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Schmitz is a senior software engineer specializing in platform and backend systems with 11 years of professional experience, currently building platform tooling at Branch. He blends server-side engineering in Kotlin, Python, and Java with hands-on AWS deployments and prior leadership as a team lead at Label Insight. A longtime full-stack developer and maker, he pairs web UIs (Vue.js, Node.js, Laravel) with physical technology work—3D modeling, laser cutting, and microcontrollers—bringing hardware-aware thinking to software projects. Active in the Saint Louis developer community as a co-organizer and presenter, he also publishes projects and code on GitHub and maintains a personal maker site, demonstrating a pragmatic mix of production engineering and creative prototyping.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration with an Emphasis in Small Business Management, Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration with an Emphasis in Small Business Management at Webster University
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Github Skills (180)
javascript-client10
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tld10
uid10
electron10
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icalendar10
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octoprint10
microsoft10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chris-schmitz/trellis-box
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 4 months
lilytrellismulti-modebox
chris-schmitz/L5SimpleFM
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:9 releases, 62 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
filemakerlaravelphplaravel-5
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