Sam Schmitt
Site Reliability Engineer at Group 1001
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Schmitt is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable infrastructure and developer-facing systems across startups and networking incumbents. He progressed from IT roles deploying district-wide device fleets and MDM solutions to software engineering positions at Juniper Networks, and now focuses on SRE at Group 1001. A Civil and Environmental Engineering student at UMass Amherst, Sam blends systems engineering instincts with practical IT operations—an uncommon crossover that informs his approach to resilient, maintainable infrastructure. He has delivered production tooling from open-source VPN rollouts during COVID to performance improvements in Swift-based educational apps. Based in Cambridge, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered mindset honed by years mentoring on a community farm and running educational programs. Practical, curious, and adaptable, Sam thrives where infrastructure reliability meets real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Wilton High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering, Senior, Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering, Senior at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English
Github Skills (124)
ipmi10
docker-desktop10
colima10
launchpad10
sdwebimage10
swift10
pad10
image-processor10
macos10
caching10
ios10
hdmi10
image10
spacex10
kingfisher10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
samcat116/home-lab
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
My Homelab infrastructure
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
ansibleinfrastructuredockersdnhomelab
NachoMemes/NachoMemes
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
:trollface:Corner the Discord meme market with this bot!:art:
Contributions:4 reviews, 182 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 8 months
discord-jsdiscord-memeartmeme-driven-developmentdiscord
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