Philip Schmidt
Senior Manager at Ciena
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Schmidt is a Senior Manager and embedded software expert with eight years' experience bringing high-capacity, cost-efficient switching platforms to market at Ciena, where he has progressed from hands-on driver development and datapath debugging to technical leadership. He specializes in device drivers, hardware testing, cross-team root-cause analysis, and product support for networking equipment, combining low-level systems know-how with program-level delivery. Based in Ottawa, he leverages a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Queen's University to translate hardware constraints into reliable firmware and test strategies. Outside work he pursues woodworking, photography, and cooking, reflecting a practical, detail-oriented mindset that shows up in both bench work and product launches.
8 years of coding experience
FFSSBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Queen's University
English
Github Skills (85)
mysql-database10
databases10
couchdb10
minio10
netlify10
nodejs10
mongodb10
audio-visualizer10
redis10
animation9
postgresql9
heroku9
nextjs9
self-hosting9
docker9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
esdete2/react-mirt
May 2022 - Aug 2022
An iOS inspired audio trimmer component for React
Contributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 months
audioaudio-trimmeraudio-visualizerreacttrimmer
networkteam/zebra-utils
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
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