Kevin Schmidt
Principal Software Engineer at Teal
Buena Vista, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Schmidt is a Staff Software Engineer with 18+ years building enterprise-scale web applications and 11 years of focused hands-on experience in modern JavaScript stacks. He has led mission-critical geospatial and real-time visualization projects for defense and commercial clients, including a Cesium/OpenLayers-based mapping platform serving 10,000+ daily users in the intelligence community. Known for blending strategic leadership with deep technical craft, he establishes architecture, coding standards, and deployment practices that measurably improve performance and team velocity. His technical toolkit emphasizes JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Tailwind, and front-end rendering optimizations, and he has contributed upstream fixes to widely used open-source mapping libraries like OpenLayers and the ol-cesium integration. Based in Buena Vista, Colorado, he pairs a Johns Hopkins CS master’s with a background in embedded and systems work at DoD contractors, giving him a rare mix of domain rigor and modern web UX sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityJohns Hopkins University
English
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Github Skills (16)
rendering10
3d10
cesiumjs10
maps10
resium10
typescript10
javascript10
canvas2d10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
render10
typescript-types10
canvas10
openlayers10
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openlayers/ol-cesium
Sep 2014 - Jan 2017
OpenLayers - Cesium integration
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily worked on integrating Cesium with OpenLayers, focusing on front-end development aspects. Their contributions included creating a synthetic vector layer example, fixing globe resizing issues, and allowing configuration of the target rendering frame rate. They also refactored the rendering loop to use `requestAnimationFrame` and addressed regressions related to the warm-up and enabling/disabling of the Cesium rendering.
cesiumopenlayers3d
openlayers/openlayers
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
OpenLayers
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 33 PRs, 54 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to improving the OpenLayers library by fixing TypeScript errors and addressing various style-related issues. Their work included refactoring code within different style-related modules, such as `RegularShape`, `IconImage`, `Style`, and `Stroke`, to ensure code quality and consistency. Moreover, they addressed several issues related to canvas rendering and TypeScript definitions, leading to better performance and stability of the library. The commits suggest a focus on maintaining and enhancing the existing codebase for map rendering.
javascriptopenlayersgis
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