Steven Schmatz
Co-Founder CTO at Taxwire.com
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Schmatz is a serial founder and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building machine learning-driven and product-focused platforms, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Taxwire where he has helped raise $13M to automate global sales tax compliance. He previously led engineering and product data teams at On Deck, scaled consumer and SaaS products at Barsala (acquired), and built ML systems at Quora, Google, and startups—bridging research-grade models with production infrastructure. Comfortable from deep learning and embeddings to full-stack product delivery, he has shipped high-impact systems like recommendation and ranking models as well as consumer mobile apps. Based in New York, he combines startup grit with institutional rigor, and is motivated by turning complex regulatory pain points into elegant developer-first solutions. An early career background in bioinformatics and reinforcement learning hints at a long-standing ability to translate academic ideas into deployable software.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSE + MSE, Computer Science, BSE + MSE, Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Engineering
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
apps-script10
autocomplete10
nodejs10
mongodb10
gitbook10
python10
tensorflow10
google-apps10
mobile10
stem10
google-apps-script10
dedicated10
machine-learning10
google-workspace10
javascript10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rdxiang/git_test
Dec 2015 - Jul 2021
test repo shh
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 8 months
testingshhtest-repo
GitbookIO/editor-legacy
Jan 2015 - Jul 2021
Legacy editor for writing books using GitBook (for Windows, Mac and Linux)
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 7 months
windowslinuxmacgitbookbooks-writing
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