David Schmitz is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating high-throughput streaming pipelines and massively parallel data processing systems. Based in Lakeville, Minnesota, he has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Surescripts where he leverages BigQuery, Kafka, and Spark to turn large-scale healthcare data into reliable, production-grade pipelines. He pairs hands-on implementation skills with system-level thinking, driving both performance tuning and architectural decisions. A CS graduate from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, David brings a practical, observability-minded approach to distributed workloads and a background that includes early internship-to-principal progression and frontline customer-facing roles that inform his pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 15 branches in 4 months
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