Trent Schmidt is an Engineering Manager based in Little Rock who blends deep Cloud/DevOps craftsmanship with people leadership across Platform and Infrastructure teams. His career spans full‑stack PHP and API development to architecting multi‑account AWS deployments, Terraform baselines, CI/CD pipelines, and ELK‑based observability, enabling reliable mission‑critical systems both on‑prem and in the cloud. He has a track record of hiring and growing teams from zero, translating executive priorities into actionable OKRs, and driving large migrations and operational improvements at Codecov, Sentry, and NIC. Notably, early in his career he designed a Laravel API integrated with OpenStack and a usage billing system—an example of his ability to bridge product needs and infrastructure execution.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science / Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science / Software Engineering at Ouachita Baptist University
Contributions:25 reviews, 32 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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