Michael Schmitt
Principal Backend Engineer at OptimaFI
Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schmitt is a Principal Backend Engineer with 15+ years building resilient backend systems, APIs, and mobile apps using Python, Ruby, Go, and Postgres. He has led engineering teams and shaped architecture at companies like ReviewTrackers and AccuRadio, shipping services that scale to enterprise workloads and consumer-facing streaming platforms. Michael also independently created Serial Reader, a widely recognized mobile app with a Python/Flask API and PostgreSQL backend featured by major publications. Comfortable across the stack and in ops-heavy roles, he pairs deep systems knowledge (RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, AWS) with strong async communication and team leadership. Based in Downers Grove, IL, he’s an incessantly curious technologist who balances production-focused engineering with interests in reading, history, and dinosaurs.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Journalism Economics, BA Journalism Economics at Roosevelt University
Github Skills (5)
markdown9
twitter6
python-scripts6
html4
django4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mlschmitt/classic-books-markdown
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
A collection of classic books presented in markdown format
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
markdown
mlschmitt/plex-music-bot
Jan 2022 - Nov 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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