Galen Schmidt
Staff Software Engineer at H-E-B
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGalen Schmidt is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building production software across travel and retail platforms, currently shaping systems at H-E-B after a long tenure at HomeAway/Vrbo. He brings deep hands-on experience in backend engineering and scalable product delivery, having progressed from internships and student consulting roles into senior and staff positions. Galen pairs an electrical engineering and computer science background from Rice University with practical expectations for robustness—his self-deprecating take on code (“exclusively bugs”) belies a pragmatic focus on shipping useful features. Known for steady progression within longtime employers, he thrives on improving large codebases and operational reliability in fast-moving business contexts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rice UniversityUniversity of North Texas
Github Skills (10)
jenkins-api-plugin8
jenkins8
jenkins-plugin7
docker7
jenkins-docker7
remoting6
emoji6
slack5
docker-image4
golang3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gryphon-zone/pipeline-shared-library
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Jenkins shared pipeline library
Contributions:32 PRs, 395 pushes, 37 branches in 4 months
jenkinspipeline-librarypipeline
gryphon-zone/screech
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Async HTTP abstraction library
Contributions:1 release, 41 PRs, 79 pushes in 1 year 6 months
async-httpasynchronousasyncioasync-awaithttp-client
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