Cliff Hammerschmidt
Vice President Of Technology at Undisclosed Wealth Company
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolCliff Hammerschmidt is a veteran technology leader and VP of Technology based in Vancouver with over 14 years of hands-on and leadership experience delivering production systems across startups and enterprise teams. He programs in a wide range of languages (from C/C++ and Java to JavaScript/TypeScript and SQL) and has repeatedly built high-performance distributed systems—leaderboards, RPC clusters, sharding and hot-migration storage—optimized for low latency and operational resilience. Cliff champions lean, team-centric development: end-to-end ownership, minimal WIP, automated CI/CD and a culture that values people, learning, and the freedom to fail and recover. He co-founded Enoki Solutions and organized Vancouver’s large developer meetup, reflecting a persistent commitment to community and mentorship. Influenced by Reinertsen, Anderson and Weinberg, he pairs deep technical craft with strong opinions on process that consistently translate into teams that ship daily with low defect rates. An unexpected detail: beyond engineering he holds advanced wine and spirits certifications, bringing an analytical palate and disciplined taste for quality to both code and culture.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at University of VictoriaCertified Specialist of Spirits Spirits, Certified Specialist of Spirits Spirits at Society of Wine EducatorsWSET Level 3 Wine Steward/Sommelier, WSET Level 3 Wine Steward/Sommelier at Pacific Institute of Culinary ArtsWSET Level 2 Wine, WSET Level 2 Wine at Fine Vintage Ltd.
English
Github Skills (65)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tanglebones/ch-ioc
Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
IoC for Infrastructure wiring.
Contributions:43 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
iocinfrastructureiotwiring
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