Tod Schmidt
Senior DevOps Engineer at The Nature Conservancy
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarTod Schmidt is a Senior DevOps Engineer with over two decades of IT experience and a decade focused on DevOps, blending mainframe-era troubleshooting chops with modern cloud, container, and FaaS practices. At The Nature Conservancy he drives infrastructure reliability and process improvements, bringing a pragmatic eye for optimizing both business workflows and technical tooling. He has deep reverse-engineering and legacy-systems debugging skills that complement his enthusiasm for cloud-native architectures. An active contributor to open-source home automation tooling, he implemented a secure MQTT plugin for AppDaemon that added TLS options, robust logging, and data-type fixes. Based in North Carolina, Tod pairs institutional knowledge from telecom and network engineering with hands-on DevOps craft to deliver resilient, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
mqtt10
python10
home-automation10
mqttnet10
asyncio9
ssl8
sslv38
ss8
yaml7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AppDaemon/appdaemon
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
:page_facing_up: Python Apps for Home Automation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tod primarily contributed to the development of an MQTT plugin for the AppDaemon home automation platform. Their work involved implementing the plugin's core functionality, including MQTT client setup, message handling, and integration with the AppDaemon state management system. Furthermore, they added TLS options for secure communication and addressed various bug fixes. The user also made improvements to logging and ensured correct data type handling.
pythonhome-automationhome-assistantautomationpython-apps
tschmidty69/hassio-snips
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
HassIO Snips Repositry
Contributions:2 releases, 162 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 2 months
snipshassio
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