Frew Schmidt
Principal Software Engineer at ZipRecruiter
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolFrew Schmidt is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and data systems from Santa Monica. At ZipRecruiter he has progressed from senior engineer to principal, leading projects that span Kubernetes platform work, logging and observability pipelines, and large-scale data lake solutions leveraging Go, Scala, Spark, Delta Lake, Kafka, S3 and AWS. He combines hands-on systems design with pragmatic migration strategy—helping teams adopt Kubernetes, streamline secrets and IAM, and reduce database load through targeted performance work. Frew also documents engineering trade-offs publicly and has a history of practical tooling and automation (from automated testing and install systems to Raspberry Pi prototypes) that reveal a bias for shipping durable, maintainable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for integrating realtime services with robust operational practices and for turning messy legacy stacks into scalable, observable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Mathematics at LeTourneau University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
frioux/tmk_keyboard
Jan 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 years 5 months
frioux/frew-perl
Apr 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
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