Weston Schmidt
Senior Director Of Engineering at Comcast
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeston Schmidt is a Senior Director of Engineering in San Jose with 13 years of experience leading software teams, architecting systems, and developing talent across large-scale SaaS and embedded platforms. At Comcast he leads XMiDT/WebPA services and mobile build improvements while scouting and driving adoption of forward-looking technologies across the organization. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like QCAD—with leadership of leaders, ensuring teams practice TDD/BDD and operate as effective DevOps/Kanban units. His background spans embedded set-top and RDK-B client development to cloud-backed microservices, giving him fluency across the full stack and product lifecycle. An entrepreneur who built and manufactured open-hardware media players, he brings practical business and manufacturing experience alongside technical depth.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS CompE, Engineering, History, BS CompE, Engineering, History at Purdue University
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
2d10
dxf10
cad10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
qcad/qcad
Dec 2014 - Oct 2020
QCAD - The Open Source 2D CAD. QCAD is a cross-platform CAD solution for Windows, macOS and Linux. It supports the DXF format and optionally the DWG format (through a proprietary plugin).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Weston primarily contributed to the dimensioning tools within the QCAD project, focusing on per-dimension scaling functionality. They added the ability to support dimension scaling, and applied it to existing dimensioning types. They also renamed variables for better readability, fixed an issue, and updated credits. Additionally, the user improved script path processing and added punctuation to help text.
cadwindowsproprietarylinuxqcad
xmidt-org/mimisbrunnr
Aug 2020 - Jun 2024
Provides device specific event delivery. Part of Codex.
Contributions:5 reviews, 15 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 10 months
comcast-codexgolangcodexyangdispatcher
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