Patrick Schmitz
Founder And Principal Consultant at RCD Nexus, an NSF CI Center of Excellence Pilot
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorPatrick Schmitz is a strategic technical leader and founder with 17 years of experience designing and managing computational and data-intensive IT services across startups, large enterprises, and higher education. As Founder and Principal Consultant at Semper Cogito Consulting and Co-PI for the NSF-funded RCD Nexus, he blends hands-on architecture with program-building to advance research computing and professional development. His domain experience spans engineering and the sciences to humanities, plus specialized expertise in museums and archives information management. Based in Berkeley, he pairs community-focused leadership and mentorship with pragmatic delivery of scalable infrastructure and services. Outside IT, he channels his craftsmanship as Head Turner at Homo Faber Woodworking, reflecting a practical, design-oriented approach to problem solving. That mix of scholarly, operational, and craft sensibilities helps him turn complex, interdisciplinary requirements into usable, sustainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
Dutch, French, German, German, English
Github Skills (8)
service-layer10
rest10
restful-api10
hybrid-cloud9
management9
javascript6
user-interface5
testing2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CaRCC/rcd-nexus-portal
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
RCD Nexus Portal, including Capabilities Model assessment
Contributions:13 PRs, 200 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 7 months
collectionspace/services
Jun 2009 - Feb 2013
The CollectionSpace service layer with a RESTful API
Contributions:311 commits in 3 years 8 months
restrestful-apiservice-layer
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