Mark Schmidt
Software Engineer at Google
Quincy, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMark Schmidt is a systems-focused software engineer with a decade of professional experience building low-level and distributed systems, currently contributing to Google after a multi-year progression from Associate to Senior Software Engineer at Ocient. He has hands-on expertise in embedded and flight-control software from leading Illini Hyperloop’s software team, and in secure distributed systems—having built an SSL encryption layer for Ocient’s database networking. Comfortable across hardware-adjacent firmware and backend infrastructure, he also has a history of mentoring and teaching, from university course assistant roles to running CS classes for underserved middle schoolers. Mark graduates early from UIUC’s CS program and brings a practical blend of academic rigor, production reliability, and a clear interest in expanding access to quality education.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (12)
hyperloop10
controlling5
jekyll5
raspberry4
javascript3
raspberry-pi2
homebridge2
homekit2
plugin1
scanning1
react1
qr-code1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
schmidtwmark/qnd
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 134 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
SchmidtScoreboard/ScoreboardApp
Apr 2019 - Jun 2023
An app for controlling a Raspberry Pi LED Scoreboard
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
raspberry-piledraspberrycontrollingscoreboard
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