Tom Schmidt
Software Engineer at Dragonfly-Capital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarTom Schmidt is a Partner at Dragonfly Capital in New York who combines deep technical chops with product and investing experience across consumer tech and crypto. He previously led product at 0x and worked on monetization at Facebook/Instagram, after hands-on engineering internships at Apple (where he helped develop an internal patent), Microsoft and others. Tom founded nugget, advises startups including Audius and Betty Labs (acquired by Spotify), and brings a founder’s perspective to early-stage investing. He contributes to open-source crypto tooling—improving front-end web3 provider detection and UX in the widely used 0x monorepo—demonstrating a practical blend of front-end engineering and protocol-level product thinking. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
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javascript10
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front-end-development10
ethereum10
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react9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
0xProject/0x-monorepo
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
0x protocol monorepo - includes our smart contracts and many developer tools
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 10 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the website interface within the 0x protocol monorepo. They implemented and refined the display of web3 provider information, including MetaMask, Mist, and Parity, integrating logging to track provider usage. The user made changes to the `index.tsx` and `utils.ts` files, fixing linting issues and correcting the Parity detection logic. The user's work also involved merging updates to reflect changes made on the 'development' branch.
monorepoexchangeethereumblockchain0x-protocol
tomhschmidt/erc721-website
Feb 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 26 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years
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