Will Schmitt
Co-Founder Partner at Achillea Research, Inc.
Montpelier, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolWill Schmitt is a seasoned software and electrical engineer and co-founder who blends hands-on hardware insight with scalable software leadership to tackle infrastructure challenges. With nine years of experience and a track record from GE’s renewable energy programs to Google’s data-centered networking, he leads cross-disciplinary teams at Achillea Research and formerly at Rightfoot to accelerate sustainable energy adoption. His work spans the full stack—from embedded systems and power electronics modeling to cloud-native architectures—enabling end-to-end solutions for grid, energy, and education initiatives. At Rightfoot, he steered an engineering organization focused on reliable software delivery using Kubernetes, Istio, and Bazel to power debt-paydown APIs. He is based in California and committed to reducing the net cost of building and operating modern infrastructure, while growing contributors and educating the next generation of engineers. He earned a BS in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, grounding his engineering leadership in rigorous fundamentals.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (126)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Charitize/regaliator_java
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
A Java HTTP client for consuming Regalii's API
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apiapi-shttp-clientjava-http-clientjava
Charitize/rightfoot-payments-demo
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Rightfoot Payments Demonstration for Integrating with Rightfoot's Student Debt 👩🎓 Repayment 💲 API
Contributions:30 reviews, 76 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 8 months
apipaymentsrepaymentdebtstudent-debt
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