Kyle Schmidt
Tech Lead Data Engineering Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Schmidt is a Tech Lead Data Engineering Manager at Meta with 12 years of experience building data platforms that drive high-stakes capacity and financial decisions—his systems inform over $135B in planning. He rose through engineering ranks at Meta from Data Engineer to Tech Lead and Staff Engineer, combining hands-on pipeline and platform design with team leadership across production-scale analytics. Based in San Francisco and trained in applied mathematics at Columbia, he brings a quantitative mindset to operationalizing models and driving reliable, scalable data products. Outside of Meta he’s advised data science fellows and cut his teeth in product and engineering roles in NYC, a background that helps him translate business needs into engineering roadmaps. Notably, his career blends elite team performance (a former US national team rower) with a steady track record of delivering mission-critical data infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
k-schmidt/Insight_Project
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 4 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 month
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k-schmidt/secret_snowflake
Dec 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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