Summary
Scott Schmidt is a Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer and seasoned cloud architect with over a decade of hands-on experience building production-grade AI, LLM, and AWS-based solutions for enterprise clients. He blends technical leadership and customer-facing strategy to design scalable, secure Intelligent Agents and Slack integrations that drive measurable productivity gains across large organizations. Previously he led Slack’s Technical Architecture team, delivering AppSec-approved integrations used by tens of thousands of employees and connecting Salesforce workflows into the digital HQ. Scott’s background in instruction and curriculum design means he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, modernizing developer education, and translating complex concepts into practical outcomes. Before cloud and AI, he ran large-scale operations and built a custom ERP—an unusual operations-to-engineering arc that informs his pragmatic, cost-aware approach to architecture. Based in Seattle, he pairs certified AWS expertise with a knack for turning enterprise challenges into deployable, user-centered systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Studied CS - Left before it was cool, Studied CS - Left before it was cool at DeVry University