Randy Schmidt
Retired
Cortland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRandy Schmidt is a seasoned IT and project manager with 16+ years of hands-on experience leading multi-site, 24x7 operations, disaster recovery, and business continuity programs across enterprise environments. He blends strategic planning with deep technical chops—software development, heavy scripting (VB, PowerShell, Python, T-SQL), systems administration, and custom integrations for platforms like Commvault, Office 365/Azure, and SAP ByDesign. Randy has led ERP and DR transformations, built resiliency into remote access and backup systems, and authored practical automation and interface solutions that reduced dependence on costly vendors. An active problem-solver who relishes challenges, he contributed backend adapters and parsing logic to the popular thoughtbot/griddler repo, improving email ingestion for Rails apps. Certified in Incident Command and with EMS background, he brings crisis-tested leadership and a pragmatic, out-of-the-box mindset to operational reliability.
16 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Computer Science, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Computer Science, summa cum laude at The University of Akron
Github Skills (5)
rspec10
email-parsing10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/griddler
Mar 2013 - May 2017
Simplify receiving email in Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Randy primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the email processing application. They implemented adapters for different email service providers, including Postmark and Mailgun, enabling the system to receive and parse emails from various sources. The user also worked on parsing logic, including handling reply delimiters and extracting relevant information from email content, alongside bug fixes and refactoring. These contributions improved the system's compatibility with various email providers.
html-emailrailsemailrubyemail-marketing
HubTran/documentation
Jul 2016 - May 2021
Documentation for the HubTran API
Contributions:17 reviews, 161 commits, 124 PRs in 4 years 10 months
api
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