Summary
Tim Schmidt is a Founding Engineer and PhD-trained software engineer with a decade of experience building systems that blend similarity search on geospatial data, deterministic and probabilistic planning, and parallel model-based architectures. After nearly nine years at Google and earlier roles at Salesforce and PARC, he now helps lead product and engineering at Lirvana Labs, maker of Yeti Confetti Kids, applying research-grade techniques to real-world products. He excels at turning academic research into scalable production systems, particularly where spatial indexing and planning intersect with high-performance compute. Based in Campbell, California, he brings a rare combination of deep systems knowledge and startup pragmatism, comfortable moving from low-level optimization to product-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Technische Universität München