Philip Schmidt
Senior Manager at Ciena
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Schmidt is a Senior Manager and embedded software expert with eight years' experience bringing high-capacity, cost-efficient switching platforms to market at Ciena, where he has progressed from hands-on driver development and datapath debugging to technical leadership. He specializes in device drivers, hardware testing, cross-team root-cause analysis, and product support for networking equipment, combining low-level systems know-how with program-level delivery. Based in Ottawa, he leverages a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Queen's University to translate hardware constraints into reliable firmware and test strategies. Outside work he pursues woodworking, photography, and cooking, reflecting a practical, detail-oriented mindset that shows up in both bench work and product launches.
8 years of coding experience
FFSSBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Queen's University
English
Github Skills (84)
databases10
docker-compose10
static-site10
audio-visualizer10
redis10
inertiajs9
laravel9
heroku9
editable9
nextjs9
self-hosting9
docker9
server9
php9
mysql9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
esdete2/react-mirt
May 2022 - Aug 2022
An iOS inspired audio trimmer component for React
Contributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 months
audioiosreactaudio-trimmeraudio-visualizer
esdete2/tailwind-rainbow
Feb 2025 - Aug 2025
VSCode extension that colorizes Tailwind CSS prefixes for better readability and visual distinction.
Contributions:5 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
tailwindcssvscode-extension
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