Tom Schmidt is a software engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building product-facing engineering for consumer and blockchain platforms. He has shipped user-facing improvements at high-profile companies including Apple, Facebook/Instagram, and the 0x Project, and now partners at Dragonfly Capital, blending technical product instincts with crypto investing. His open-source contributions to the 0x monorepo focused on front-end UX for web3 provider detection and telemetry, improving the handling of MetaMask, Mist, and Parity integrations. Tom combines front-end craftsmanship with a product mindset, comfortable moving between code, UX details, and cross-team product decisions. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex blockchain integrations into clear, usable interfaces. He’s driven by making developer and end-user experiences more reliable and transparent in emerging web3 ecosystems.
0x protocol monorepo - includes our smart contracts and many developer tools
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:22 commits, 10 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the website interface within the 0x protocol monorepo. They implemented and refined the display of web3 provider information, including MetaMask, Mist, and Parity, integrating logging to track provider usage. The user made changes to the `index.tsx` and `utils.ts` files, fixing linting issues and correcting the Parity detection logic. The user's work also involved merging updates to reflect changes made on the 'development' branch.
Contributions:45 commits, 26 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years
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