Summary
James Schmidt is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of documented experience in senior and principal roles across SaaS, payroll/payments, e-commerce, and workplace experience platforms. He has a strong focus on microservices and open source, and currently leads architecture and delivery at Experlogix after serving as a contractor there and senior engineer roles at Everee, Eptura, WeWork, and Overstock. Comfortable in both startup and PE-backed environments, he brings practical system design experience from embedded pharma systems to large-scale web platforms and payroll systems. Based in South Jordan, Utah, he combines hands-on coding with technical leadership and a track record of guiding teams through product and ownership transitions. An undergraduate in Computer Science with a software engineering emphasis, he tends to bridge legacy enterprise needs with modern microservice practices to ship reliable systems.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Software Engineering Emphasis, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Software Engineering Emphasis at Weber State University