Jochen聽Schmitt
Firmware Engineer at WD, a Western Digital company
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJochen Schmitt is a firmware and data engineer with about 20 years of experience designing, debugging, and automating embedded storage firmware for SATA and SAS drives. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he blends deep C++ and Python expertise with embedded Linux, kernel customization, and advanced trace-based debugging (Sourcepoint/ETM) to streamline defect management and testing. He has led Scrum teams and mentored junior engineers while building tooling鈥擳CL, Bash, VB and Python integrations鈥攖hat significantly improved firmware test efficiency. Holding graduate degrees in software engineering and data science, he combines rigorous academic training with practical, low-level systems work and a growing focus on data-driven firmware validation. An unspoken strength is his ability to bridge firmware, automation and analysis so teams can iterate faster on complex storage devices.
20 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Indiana University EastMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at University of Colorado BoulderM.S., Computer Science - Specialization in Software Engineering and Distributed Systems, M.S., Computer Science - Specialization in Software Engineering and Distributed Systems at California State University-FullertonUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (13)
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debian1
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programming-language1
smalltalk1
emacs1
functional-programming1
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scala-native1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
willb/rpm-packaging
Dec 2010 - Mar 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 2 years 3 months
Neustradamus/comps
Mar 2006 - Nov 2011
Contributions:13 commits in 5 years 9 months
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