Thomas Schultz
Associate Director Of Engineering
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Schultz is an Associate Director of Engineering with 15 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, scalable infrastructure, and high-performing engineering teams from startup to enterprise. Currently leading cloud platform efforts at PsiThera while running his consultancy Apixo, he blends hands-on Python backend work with strategic leadership and DevOps best practices. His open-source contributions to prominent Google Cloud Python client libraries (pubsub, storage, bigquery, speech) show a focus on reliability, async workflows, and improving test and documentation quality. Comfortable across APIs, CI/CD, and distributed systems, he has a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes and architectural improvements that reduce operational friction. Based in Michigan, he pairs product-minded engineering with an entrepreneur’s appetite for solving operational and integration challenges.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Andrews University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
google-bigquery10
google-cloud-platform10
bigquery10
python10
apidoc10
async10
testing10
gquery10
google-cloud-storage10
google-cloud-pubsub10
api10
google-cloud-speech10
pubsub10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-python
Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Google Cloud Client Libraries for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 439 commits, 435 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the project by modifying existing configuration and documentation files. Their work involved tasks such as adding full paths to index creation files and updating references to external links, along with renaming environment variables. These changes focused on improving documentation, simplifying build steps, and general maintenance of the project's structure.
google-cloudpython
googleapis/python-speech
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
This library has moved to https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-speech
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the development of the asynchronous recognize feature for the Google Cloud Speech API. Their work included adding support for asynchronous speech recognition, modifying existing code to remove unnecessary keys, and implementing several new classes, including Transcript and Metadata. The user's contributions involved modifications across multiple files, demonstrating a good understanding of the API's internal structure and functionality. This included refactoring and improvements to the testing suite.
google-apigoogle-cloudgoogle-cloud-speechgoogleapispython
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