Pedro Schmidt

Ship production systems for Speed Survivor, a real-time sports gaming platform. Build and optimize live mobile experiences across React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Python, Firebase, and REST APIs, including game state, leaderboards, contest chat, moderation, authentication, navigation, and social features. Develop systems that react to live football data while maintaining responsive performance during active contests. Reworked leaderboard identity reconciliation across mobile, API, and engine services to preserve player scores, rankings, and elimination state, backed by regression tests. Diagnose and resolve production issues across iOS/Android, React Native/Hermes, Firebase, APIs, WebViews, caching, and application lifecycle state.

Led engineering across internal applications, AI systems, LMS infrastructure, integrations, and cloud services supporting a learning platform with 20,000+ active users and 100+ courses. Architected production AI tooling using Python, FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, semantic retrieval, and enterprise RAG. Built services and integrations across AWS Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, SES, PostgreSQL, HubSpot, Zapier, Stripe, REST APIs, and webhooks. Owned architecture, implementation, infrastructure, deployment, and technical mentorship across product and business teams.

Built production web applications and backend APIs supporting athlete management, evaluation, and operational workflows. Developed reusable React and Next.js application architecture with role-based access control, API validation, MongoDB-backed services, and structured athlete evaluation systems. Worked directly with company leadership to translate business requirements into shipped product features.