Jeff Schmitz
Staff Software Engineer at Team Iron Will
Chesterfield, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Schmitz is a seasoned staff software engineer and founder with 15+ years building high-performance systems and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise firms. He combines deep C++ and Ruby on Rails expertise with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, and software architecture, having shipped production trading engines, analytics platforms, and EHR integrations. As founder of Scholaric, his education planner powered millions of lessons, and his open-source work on Liquibook and contributions to ACE/TAO show a knack for low-level process management and robust build tooling. Jeff has steered companies through rapid growth, cloud migrations, and an acquisition, and now leads technical efforts at Snapsheet while serving on the founding board of Team Iron Will. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, he frequently balances hands-on coding with mentoring and system-level design decisions that improve maintainability and automated testing. Based in Chesterfield, MO, he brings a rare mix of product-focused entrepreneurship and deep systems engineering.
15 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteDuchesne High School
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Github Skills (25)
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cprogramming-language10
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middleware9
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app-framework9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DOCGroup/ACE_TAO
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
ACE and TAO
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to the `ACE and TAO` repository, focusing on improving the build process and error handling within the Perl scripts. They updated the `fuzz.pl` script to support GIT repositories and refined the `Process_Unix.pm` file to improve PID handling. Additionally, the user made changes related to remote process killing and logging. These contributions demonstrate a focus on system-level process management and script improvement within a C++ framework.
cppc-plus-plusframeworkacecorba
iamtheschmitzer/liquibook
Mar 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:177 commits in 2 years 3 months
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