Summary
Jeremy Schuurmans is a software engineer with eight years of experience who transitioned from a career as a chef to building reliable web and mobile products, bringing creativity, curiosity, and relentless positivity to engineering teams. Based in Madison, WI, he has helped scale Ruby on Rails applications for high-growth SaaS, migrated monolith features to microservices to cut DB CPU by over 75%, and led front-end redesigns in React/TypeScript and React Native. He’s shipped infrastructure work for staging/production environments, participated in database migrations from MongoDB to PostgreSQL, and contributed to testing and stability efforts across teams. Jeremy pairs hands-on engineering with a people-first approach—having driven internal policy and DE&I initiatives—and balances work with a focus on family and doing some good in the world.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Flatiron School
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Western Governors University