Nicholas Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer at bp
Standish, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Schmidt is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 11 years in senior leadership and a 20+ year technical career spanning the USA and international markets. Currently CTO at bp, he led the acquisition-era technology vision at Blueprint Power—building an IoT hardware and cloud platform, data science models, and Kubernetes-based microservices that enabled behind-the-meter energy solutions and a successful exit. He has repeatedly stood up engineering organizations from startup to scale, founding and growing international teams (including a 45+ person distributed engineering org and a Slovak subsidiary) while navigating legal, regulatory, and market-entry challenges. A former Air Force information security engineer and early chief engineer at Boeing, he brings deep expertise in grid security (NIST 800), secure cross-domain systems, and operationalizing FedRAMP-compliant solutions. Nicholas combines hands-on systems and security chops with investor-facing product rigor—having helped raise multiple funding rounds and delivered enterprise-grade deployments across energy, ISR, and manufacturing domains.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Journeyman Technical Certification Level 5, Journeyman Technical Certification Level 5 at United States Air ForceManage within the Law, Manage within the Law at BoeingA+, A+ at CompTIAComputer Science 50, Computer Science 50 at Harvard UniversityBoundary Information Protection (BIP) Network Security and Warfare Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, Boundary Information Protection (BIP) Network Security and Warfare Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare at U.S. Air Force Technical School
German, English
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Github Skills (78)
switch10
ethernet10
sd-wan9
vpn9
peer-to-peer9
sdn9
networking9
iptables9
virtual-network9
earth9
decentralization9
installer9
applescript8
dns8
qos8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oneguynick/insync
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
oneguynick/ZeroTierOne
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
earthbgpaltium-designerwake-on-lanswitch
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