Will Schmitt
Co-Founder & Partner at Achillea Research, Inc.
Montpelier, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolWill Schmitt is a co-founder and engineer with a decade of experience building software and power-electronics solutions that accelerate renewable energy adoption and modernize infrastructure. He blends full-stack software—from embedded inverter controls to cloud orchestration—with deep domain expertise in grid studies, control-system modeling, and power electronics developed at GE and in solar/wind projects. As Director of Engineering at Rightfoot he shaped a resilient microservices platform with Kubernetes, Istio, and Bazel, and now co-leads Achillea Research, applying that systems thinking to infrastructure problems. Based in Montpelier, Vermont, he focuses on reducing the net cost of building and operating society through sustainable energy, education, and tooling. Notably, he pairs hands-on control modeling and transient simulation experience with production-grade orchestration skills, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions that travel from lab hardware to cloud scale.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (115)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Charitize/regaliator_java
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
A Java HTTP client for consuming Regalii's API
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apiapi-shttp-clientjava-http-clientjava
Charitize/rightfoot-payments-demo
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Rightfoot Payments Demonstration for Integrating with Rightfoot's Student Debt 👩🎓 Repayment 💲 API
Contributions:30 reviews, 76 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 8 months
apipaymentsrepaymentdebtstudent-debt
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