Jim Schneidereit
Staff Software Engineer at RADAR
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJim Schneidereit is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience designing and shipping robust back-end systems and test automation across enterprise analytics and cloud platforms. He has advanced through engineering and lead roles at Tableau and Salesforce and now drives technical strategy at RADAR, blending hands-on coding with team mentorship. A passionate contributor to the Kotest open-source testing framework, Jim has improved test execution, JSON parsing, and resilient retry behaviors—work that demonstrates a deep focus on reliability and developer experience. His background combines a CS master’s from Oregon State with early roots in IT automation and systems work, giving him practical expertise from infrastructure scripting to distributed application design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle improvements in testability and observability that keep large systems healthy.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at San Francisco State UniversityMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (15)
kotlin10
assertion10
json-parser10
json10
property-testing10
jsonp10
test-framework10
parsing10
test-automation10
testing10
powershell6
asp-net-mvc6
kotest6
entity-framework6
mdt6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kotest/kotest
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Powerful, elegant and flexible test framework for Kotlin with assertions, property testing and data driven tests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:81 reviews, 24 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jim contributed to the Kotest framework by addressing issues related to test execution and reporting. They fixed test failures, added features like lazy clues, and integrated data-driven tests. The user also focused on enhancing the test framework's json parsing capabilities by replacing Jackson with kotlinx-serialization and adding additional long tests. Furthermore, they implemented new features like eventual retry limits and added improvements to exponential intervals.
data-drivendata-driven-testingassertionsdriven-testingproperty-testing
jschneidereit/flatbuffer-choco
Sep 2018 - May 2024
Code to generate chocolatey package for flatbuffer compiler (flatc)
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 years 9 months
compilerchocolateyflatbuffer
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