Larry Schirmer is a pragmatic MERN-stack software engineer with nine years of experience delivering production-ready web applications and a five-year track record of shipping bi-weekly features in agile teams. He has built and maintained full-stack systems at companies like Autodesk, Everdays, and Illuminating Concepts, turning mockups and product goals into testable, maintainable code across frontend and backend. Self-taught in deep learning, he applies data cleaning, model design, hyperparameter tuning, and model serving skills gained from ongoing coursework and personal projects outside work hours. A former Peace Corps volunteer with engineering graduate training, he brings systems-thinking, practical field experience, and a knack for converting complex requirements into actionable implementation plans. He shares work publicly via GitHub (github.com/laschirm) and blends disciplined production engineering with a continuous-learning approach to ML and software craft.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Civil Engineering, 3.43, Master of Science - MS, Civil Engineering, 3.43 at Michigan Technological University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math/Physics, 3.33, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math/Physics, 3.33 at Spring Arbor University
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