About
Heike Schmitz is a staff software engineer at ePlant with a background in Computer Science and Marine Biology. She previously led testing services teams at Google, where she managed a quality assurance organization that grew to over 300 people and contributed to IPO preparations including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance work. Schmitz is a member of Sand Hill Angels and has held roles including management consultant, quality assurance engineer at Workspot Inc., and researcher at Jupiter Research Foundation supporting autonomous marine systems and carbon dioxide flux research.
Experience
- Sand Hill AngelsMembercurrent2014 — presentPalo Alto, CA
- ePlant, IncStaff Software Engineer2021 — 2024Los Altos, California, United States
- TripSeerVP Software Quality Assurance2015 — 2023Palo Alto
- Friends of the RiverBoard Member2019 — 2022
- Jupiter Research FoundationSenior Research Scientist/Software Engineer2019 — 2021
- Jupiter Research FoundationResearch Associate/Project Manager/Software Engineer2015 — 2019350 2nd Street #6, Los Altos, CA 94022
- Ocean ChampionsBoard Member2017 — 2018
- GoogleAdvisor/Consultant2006 — 2007Mountain View, CA
- GoogleSenior Engineering Manager2001 — 2006Mountain View, CA
- Workspot Inc.QA Engineer2000 — 2001
- Winter PartnersAnalyst/Programmer1990 — 1992Zurich, Switzerland
- KPMGManagement Consultant1988 — 1990Zürich Area, Switzerland
Skills & more
FlutterAmazon Web Services (AWS)JiraBitbucketPython3Ruby1C++1Hadoop1MapReduce1Perl1Java1Team Leadership4
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ManagementProject ManagementScalabilityDistributed SystemsQuality AssuranceSoftware EngineeringInformation RetrievalSoftware DevelopmentComputer ScienceBig DataMachine LearningAlgorithmsLanguages English · French · German · Swiss-German
- Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach — Coursera Course Certificates
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Adam Wu
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Akash Pai
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Alan Fisher
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Alan Ren
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Alexandr Ikriannikov
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Amanda Huang
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Heike Schmitz?
- Heike Schmitz is a staff software engineer at ePlant with a background in Computer Science and Marine Biology. She previously led testing services teams at Google, where she managed a quality assurance organization that grew to over 300 people and contributed to IPO preparations including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance work. Schmitz is a member of Sand Hill Angels and has held roles including management consultant, quality assurance engineer at Workspot Inc., and researcher at Jupiter Research Foundation supporting autonomous marine systems and carbon dioxide flux research.
- Where does Heike Schmitz work?
- Heike Schmitz is at Sand Hill Angels.
- Where did Heike Schmitz go to school?
- Heike Schmitz studied at University of California, Santa Cruz (Bachelor of Science (BS), Marine Biology); Foothill College (Transfer); Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Computer Science).
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