Peter Schmidt
Director - Global Capital at Antler
Sydney, New South Wales, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Schmidt is a director leading Global Capital at Antler with 13 years of experience blending tech fluency, venture-building and strategy across APAC and the US. He pairs hands-on backend engineering—contributions to prominent open-source Python projects like Apache Libcloud and SymPy—with venture and operational experience from Kearney and Antler, helping founders scale product and cloud infrastructure. A founder of a charity that has raised nearly $200k for mental health, he brings uncommon cross-functional credibility in fundraising, governance and technical delivery. His background in economics (UQ) and study at UC Berkeley inform a data-driven approach to investment and product decisions, and his long-term open-source involvement shows a pragmatic focus on reliability and testing in production systems.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Business & Economics, Study Abroad Business & Economics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor’s Degree Commerce Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Commerce Economics at The University of QueenslandHigh School, High School at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace
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Github Skills (27)
computer-algebra10
pytest10
cloud-computing10
python10
apidoc10
django10
testing10
storage10
django-rest10
swagger-ui10
api10
django-rest-framework10
libcloud10
openapi10
test-automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
marcgibbons/django-rest-swagger
Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
Swagger Documentation Generator for Django REST Framework: deprecated
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to improving the Swagger documentation generator for Django REST Framework. Their work included adding tests to verify the exclusion of nested URLs, fixing an unused import, and making the test pass. They also added the "info" JSON from the Petstore example and implemented the ability to configure swagger information via settings, improving the project's documentation and configurability. Finally, the user defaulted to empty strings for the 'info' fields to ensure compatibility with existing swagger documentation.
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangodocumentation-generatorrest-framework
apache/libcloud
Nov 2014 - Apr 2016
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the storage API functionality of the Apache Libcloud library. The contributions include adding the ability to pass custom headers for uploads, enabling support for features like CORS. Additionally, the user fixed an issue related to streaming uploads under Python 3 and addressed several issues related to XML parsing within the library. These changes involved modifications across multiple files, including core storage driver files and associated testing infrastructure.
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
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