Will Schmierer III
Capacity available now: 1 to 2 projects
Twenty years shipping production systems. I embed in teams and pods as a solutions-focused deployment engineer, integrating AI where it actually moves the needle for the business.
I'm employed full-time and selectively taking 1-2 additional projects. If you're building ambitious work, let's talk.
Also at willschmierer.com · lovablegazelle.com · built.wtf
I work with what exists. I strengthen the foundation, then build AI systems that actually deliver outcomes.
Track Record
Current role first, then the engineering leadership run that built the operating model. Open the rest if you want the full path.
30-person agency, remote
WebDevStudios, Jacksonville, FL (Remote)
Metro Jacksonville
Ox Nest Studios, LLC
Think Dynasty LLC, Williamsburg, VA
Smellycat Productions, Williamsburg, VA
Zubillaga Design, Florida
Foxtons North America, New Jersey
The Arc
University of Miami, School of Architecture. Four years of critiques taught me how to take hard feedback, iterate in public, and pull a room together around a single idea. That's where I learned to lead. Real estate in Jersey after that, then Zubillaga Design back in Florida. High-end residential and commercial work across Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Certificates at Miami Dade. Founded and ran a boutique WordPress agency. Learned how to ship client work, manage delivery, and build systems from zero. Agency life taught me how to deploy under real constraints before I ever touched enterprise scale.
Led 100+ engineers across time zones for Fortune 500 clients. Built the systems, processes, and culture that let teams ship reliably at scale. 96% retention. 15 promotions. The machine ran and kept running after I left.
Now I'm back. You can try to knock me down, but you're going to have to hit harder because I keep surviving.
Founded a survivor-focused recovery community in 2022. 50+ members, stroke and chronic illness survivors, building back together. Multi-channel content, podcast collaborations, peer support. The rebuild doesn't end. You just start bringing other people with you.
Plumbing apprentice through NEFBA. Same systems thinking from architecture school, now applied to physical infrastructure. When I deploy something, it has to work in the real world, not just in theory.
Running digital operations for a 30-person agency. Building autonomous agent teams that ship real client work overnight. Founded Lovable Gazelle to put senior engineering leadership and hands-on deployment together. The architect never left. He just learned how to deploy AI systems that actually work in production.
Twenty years in. Still building. The next chapter is wide open.
Principles and Values
Firm, collaborative, transparent. I lead with people, not above them. Anti-top-down, anti-bureaucratic.
Maker identity over title identity. Ship the thing.
Curious and evolving. Confident enough to change my mind the second someone has a better idea.
Fluent in both dev and client. Spent twenty years in the middle, turning requirements into code and code into answers. That's the job.
The opposite of how most shops run. Tell clients the hard thing before the bill goes sideways. Set expectations you can beat, then beat them.
Responsiveness is table stakes, not a feature. Real check-ins, real updates, no dodging. Every few years, a client asks me when I'm starting my own agency again.
Current Focus
This is the operating layer: what I execute week to week across AI systems, delivery operations, and field service.
Automation, orchestration, quality gates
Building multi-agent workflows that turn scoped requirements into production-ready deliverables with review checkpoints, test handoffs, and client-safe release flows.
Security response, uptime, delivery throughput
Owning high-volume WordPress operations: incident response, environment hardening, workflow cleanup, and execution systems that keep teams shipping under pressure.
Trades operations, dispatch, customer systems
Applying systems thinking from field work into business operations: faster dispatch, clearer intake, and practical AI integrations that help teams in the real world, not just demos.
Technical Range
Claude Code, Claude API, Anthropic SDK, Multi-Agent Orchestration, MCP, Prompt Engineering
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, Node.js, WordPress (Block Themes, REST API, WP-CLI, FSE)
WP Engine, Cloudflare, Vercel, Incident Response, Malware Remediation, DevOps, CI/CD
Agile (CSM, CSPO), Enterprise Program Management, Remote Team Leadership, Release Planning
Receipts
Real work, real code, real ships. Pick a card, see the thing.
Main Site
The full brand site. Longer story, more work, more projects, more proof. Go here if you want the whole picture.
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Agency
Founded to bring enterprise rigor to the trades. Autonomous agent teams shipping WordPress production work for plumbers, electricians, and HVAC clients.
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Portfolio & Blog
Portfolio, projects, and daily writing on agentic engineering. Undeniable. Relentless. Built Different.
AI Agent System
Multi-agent orchestration system for coordinating specialized AI workers across concurrent tasks. Built for Lovable Gazelle's autonomous client delivery pipeline.
See it →Security at Scale
Career-spanning WordPress security response. Malware remediation, incident response, finding threats Sucuri and WP Engine missed. 314 environments in one incident alone. Thousands across a twenty-year career.
See more →Autonomous Build
One agent, one night, one entire client website: 18 patterns, 23 templates, 10 commits. Production-ready, client-approved, autonomous end-to-end.
See it →Community
Active in the WordPress community since 2008. Regular WordCamp attendee. Shipping real work on WordPress, cleaning up other people's WordPress, and teaching other developers how to do both.
Founded and lead a 50+ member community for stroke and chronic illness survivors. Multi-channel content, podcast collaborations, peer support. From "Good Enough" to "Unstoppable AF". Navigating recovery together since 2022.
Coached 35+ technical professionals into effective project leaders and managers through structured coaching programs. 100% retention, 5 senior role promotions.
Where I'm Headed
Always thinking, always exploring, always questioning, always building.
Twenty years building things that ship. Architecture school. WordPress on the agency side. Fortune 500 engineering leadership. The trades, literally, on weekends. A few other lives in between that don't fit on a LinkedIn timeline. Most people look at all that and see a job-hopper. I see the same job in a lot of different uniforms.
Right now I'm running digital operations, shipping with autonomous agents, and cleaning up the kind of WordPress messes that twenty years of scar tissue lets you see coming. I build with AI every single day. I can also tell you why a layout is broken before dev tools open. That combination is the whole pitch.
I'm looking for a small, high-trust team that gives a damn about craft. Clarity, ownership, follow-through. Founders with cool projects, teams that need someone who can actually own the thing, or just a conversation about where this is all going. You know where to find me.
What it's all for
Three kids and a wife in Jacksonville. That's the whole why. The work. The rebuild. The relentless. Everything else is just how. Build something they can stand on. Build something that holds.
Education & Certifications
University of Miami
2001 to 2005
Southern New Hampshire University
Expected May 2026
Let's talk
Full-time role, consulting, or just a chat about a cool project. I'm in for all of it. Email is fastest. Phone works. The calendar is open if you would rather grab a slot.
Not the right fit if...
LinkedIn is the version they want. The site is the real one. Email is faster.
Jacksonville, FL