Ian Schmitz

Software Engineer

Canada11 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable SaaS applications
  • Proven track record in AI and legal tech
  • Strong leadership in engineering management
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with strong engineering management capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

ReactPythonNodeAwsOpen Source DevelopmentEngineering Management

Other Skills

TypeScriptPostgresOpenAI GPTAWS SQSLambdaS3OpenAI/Anthropic LLM modelsSupabaseVercelGraphQLLookerDockerPulumiAWS RDSECS

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Shopify

Staff Software Engineer

May 2024Present · 2 yrs

Freelance

Software Engineering Advisor & Consultant

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Yellowpad
  • Worked with the team at a pre-seed San
  • Francisco based startup to architect and develop a legal AI platform
  • The platform extracts key deliverables from large (> 100 pages) merger and acquisition
  • documents using a combination of vector embedding similarity search and large language
  • models for item extraction
  • Designed the platform by working closely with a some of the largest law firms in North America
  • (Cooley, McDermott Will & Emery) to reduce their time spent generating merger and acquisition
  • closing checklists by over 90%
  • Technologies: React, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, various OpenAI GPT/embedding models,
  • Supabase, AWS SQS, Lambda, S3
  • OneCircle CRM
  • Advisor for a Los Angeles based venture studio guiding development of an AI CRM platform for
  • corporate executives
  • ModelMetrics
  • Designed and developed a LLM prompt refinement and observability platform to help users build
  • more robust prompts, and observe the performance and user satisfaction of their prompts once in
  • production
  • Technologies: React, TypeScript, Node, Postgres, OpenAI/Anthropic LLM models, Supabase, Vercel
ReactTypeScriptPythonPostgresOpenAI GPTAWS SQS+2

Retain.ai

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jun 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

  • Ingested hundreds of thousands of user data points daily from multiple sources including our
  • proprietary browser extension, Google Calendar, GMail, and Salesforce
  • Powered customer success and sales teams at large industry leaders like Salesforce, Snowflake, and Nielsen
  • Acquired by Dagster Labs in 2023

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

  • Built the React based reporting dashboards from the ground up replacing legacy Ruby on Rails dashboards
  • Hired & led the application engineering team responsible for building our proprietary browser extension
  • and comprehensive reporting dashboards which provided users insight into how they spent their time with
  • customers
  • Helped harmonize the Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ship features faster with more user
  • satisfaction
  • Designed and maintained a CI/CD pipeline to build, test, and deploy our stack using infrastructure as code
  • definitions to greatly reduce time spent manually deploying product changes
  • Technologies: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, Looker, Docker, Pulumi, AWS RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda,
  • ALB
ReactTypeScriptGraphQLPostgresLookerDocker+7

Vertigis

4 roles

Senior Software Architect

Promoted

Jan 2021Apr 2021 · 3 mos

  • My role as Software Architect involves overseeing and developing the architecture and design principles across our entire product suite.
Engineering Management

Product Owner

May 2020Jan 2021 · 8 mos

  • In addition to my role at Geocortex (now VertiGIS) as Product Owner, my work during this period included a heavy focus to expand our open source initiatives at the company. We rely on an extensive partner network that customizes our software that has now benefited by having the ability to peek under the hood and contribute improvements to our various SDKs and other developer resources that they rely on every day.
Open Source DevelopmentEngineering Management

Product Owner

Feb 2019May 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Lead a team of developers working on cross-cutting development initiatives:
  • Architecture and maintenance of Azure and AWS based SaaS infrastructure
  • Empowering our partner community to extend our product suite through new SDKs and developer resources
  • Designing innovative new ways to integrate our products with one another
  • Developing and maintaining shared React component libraries
  • Building CI/CD pipelines to automatically deploy software to production
Engineering Management

Software Development Team Lead

Sep 2017Feb 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Lead a team building our next generation Geocortex Web and Mobile Designer products. The Designers provides an easy, visual way to build powerful and flexible 2D & 3D GIS applications without any development experience.
Engineering Management

Github

Open Source Maintainer Cohort Member

Jan 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Worked alongside maintainers from the most popular and active projects on GitHub to help guide the feature development of GitHub's platform.
Open Source Development

Facebook

Core Team Member @ Create React App

Oct 2018Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Create React App sets up a modern web app by running one command. At its peak it had over 15M monthly downloads on npm, and over 100K stars on GitHub.
  • Create React App was originally developed by Facebook and is now developed and maintained by a small dedicated team of volunteers from the open source community.
  • The members of the core team manage the day-to-day operations, contributions, as well as the long term vision and road map of the project.
Open Source Development

Trackmeet

Co-Founder

Jul 2014Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Victoria, BC

  • Trackmeet is a meeting productivity tool used by thousands of teams worldwide.
  • Product Development
  • Architected Azure cloud based SaaS infrastructure that can scale to millions of simultaneous users
  • Provided OAuth authentication for Google and Office 365 sign-in
  • Integrated with popular services such as Slack, Google Calendar/Docs/Drive/Contacts, Office 365, and Asana
  • Designed and developed an Android & iOS native app using Xamarin
  • Product Management
  • Created and maintained the product backlog
  • Prioritized the backlog according to business value
  • Communicated progress to stakeholders
  • Marketing
  • Identified, collected and analyzed KPI data to support business decisions
  • Created custom charting of KPI data using Klipfolio
  • Tracked and analyzed various customer metrics using Google Analytics
  • Collaborated with a marketing firm to develop a marketing strategy
  • Managed CPC (cost-per-click) marketing campaigns using Google AdWords, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Reddit marketing tools
Android DevelopmentEngineering Management

Education

Camosun College

Diploma — Computer Systems Technology

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Camosun College

Journeyman — Welding Technology/Welder

Jan 2007Jan 2010

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