Marcelo Schmidt
Head Of Support at Rocket.Chat
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Marcelo Schmidt is a technology leader with 13 years of experience who has grown with Rocket.Chat from full-stack developer to Head of Support, helping scale the platform to millions of users. He blends hands-on engineering—particularly front-end UI work and back-end package changes on the flagship Rocket.Chat repo—with cross-functional business leadership in operations, program management and interim COO responsibilities. Known as a culture steward, he personally connected with teammates during rapid growth, organized major summits, and built integrations and financial reporting that improved operational visibility. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Marcelo values remote work flexibility that supported his family life while driving product and support excellence. His background spans real-time web apps, Meteor-based systems, and early contributions to the open-source roots of Rocket.Chat, giving him a rare mix of product, people and technical depth.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art PhotographiqueBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
web-development9
hubot6
nodejs6
docker-compose6
web-application6
mongodb6
meteor6
rocketchat6
server6
ssh6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
May 2015 - May 2022
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1236 commits, 293 PRs, 812 pushes in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcelo's contributions primarily involve front-end development, with a focus on enhancing the user interface and functionality of a messaging platform. This includes creating UI components with HTML and CSS for styling and displaying information as well as managing states. The user also has involvement in back-end development as they make changes to the package files.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
RocketChat/Apps.Zoho
Nov 2019 - May 2024
Rocket.Chat Zoho Integration App
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 7 months
zulipzohochatrocketrocket-chat
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