Zach Schmidt
Expert Software Architect at Blizzard Entertainment
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Schmidt is an expert software architect with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems from real-time auction platforms to terabyte-scale clickstream pipelines. Based in Bend, Oregon, he blends frontend and backend expertise—Angular/TypeScript and C#/Java/Scala—with deep cloud-native skills across Azure, GCP, and AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. He’s delivered high-traffic, low-latency systems and improved accessibility in web apps, while also optimizing data pipelines and automating infrastructure with Terraform and Helm. Known for onboarding and mentoring teams, he has practical security and access-control experience managing offshore provisioning at scale. His work uniquely spans lab-grade embedded software (C++/MFC) to large cloud deployments, reflecting a knack for solving diverse technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science Computer Science at University of OregonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Github Skills (8)
chrome-extension8
firefox-addon8
reddit8
continuous-delivery2
continuous-testing2
travis-ci2
continuous-deployment2
continuous-integration2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zschmidt/zschmidt.github.io
Dec 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
nwpointer/quackHack4x
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:53 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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