Kyle Schmitz
Founder at Teenage Astronauts Inc.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKyle Schmitz is a founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building games and enterprise platforms from Winnipeg, Canada. He led engineering teams at iQmetrix, Ubisoft, and D2L—improving release cadence, implementing agile practices, and scaling backend systems (including a load test suite that supported 100k concurrent users). As founder of Teenage Astronauts Inc., he launched Little Rocket Lab to over 45,000 players and secured publishing and Game Pass deals with No More Robots and Microsoft ahead of a 2025 full release. Equally comfortable shipping polished client-facing experiences and mentoring teams, he blends hands-on development, product sensibility, and recruitment/people leadership. His background in Honours Computer Science and a track record of turning prototypes into commercial partnerships underscore his entrepreneurial technicalism.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Honours (Co-op), Computer Science, 4.07 GPA, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Computer Science, Honours (Co-op), Computer Science, 4.07 GPA, First Class Honours at University of Manitoba
English
Github Skills (3)
java5
github2
github-enterprise2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kyleschmitz/dotnetwpg
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:75 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
kyleschmitz/javawpg
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
ComIT Java sources
Contributions:87 commits, 4 PRs, 86 pushes in 2 months
javajava-sourcessources
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.