# Will Schmierer III > Forward Deployed Engineer and founder of Lovable Gazelle: deploys voice AI receptionists and back-office agents for trades shops, including The Greatful Plumber, and migrated two plumbing shops from Housecall Pro to Jobber. Led 100+ engineers across 7+ years at WebDevStudios, delivering enterprise platforms for clients including Microsoft and the NBA. Owns discovery through production rollout and turns what works into repeatable patterns. 20 years shipping production systems. Wants to work on AI agents and developer tools. Available now, based in Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL (Remote, open to travel). This file is a machine-readable summary of resume.willschmierer.com for AI agents, sourcing tools, and automated discovery. It is kept intentionally short. For the full site content, follow the links below. ## Identity - Name: Will Schmierer III - Role targets: Forward Deployed Engineer, Senior Software Engineer (IC), AI Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Developer Tools Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer - Target lane: AI agents and developer tools (applied AI engineering) - Location: Jacksonville / St. Augustine, Florida, United States - Work style: Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL · Remote, open to travel - Employment status: Available now for a full-time forward-deployed or senior IC role; based in Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL; remote, open to travel to customers - Email: will@lovablegazelle.com - Phone: 305-725-2419 - Canonical site: https://resume.willschmierer.com ## What he does right now - Founder and Forward Deployed Engineer at Lovable Gazelle (2021 to present). Deploys voice AI receptionists and back-office agent teams (Hermes agents, OpenClaw teams, and Grok Bot) for trades shops, wired into Housecall Pro, Jobber, Go High Level, QuickBooks, and Stripe: after-hours calls, missed-call text-back, open-invoice follow-up, payment links. Every agent gets one role, a defined job, and its own persona (a soul), so it works like human staff. A reviewer agent gates every PR before merge. Embeds with owners, customer service reps (CSRs), and dispatchers at plumbing, HVAC, and electrical shops to map call, dispatch, and finance workflows, then deploys agents that run the shop's software. Now moving The Greatful Plumber from Housecall Pro to PLMBR, rolling out customer service and dispatch in stages. Migrated two other plumbing shops' live operations from Housecall Pro to Jobber. Built the Lovable Gazelle client portal (Next.js, Postgres, Clerk, Stripe, Sentry): 95 merged PRs, 436 passing tests. Built the Agent-Ready Site Grader (grader.lovablegazelle.com; 78 merged PRs). Security: Sentry secret scrubbing with regression tests, gitleaks in CI, Cloudflare Access gating. Built MCP servers (a stdio MCP bridge on the official SDK; a Go High Level MCP integration with scoped tokens), Cursor plugins, and Claude Code skills. Last 12 months: nearly 7,000 GitHub contributions and 1,095 merged PRs across 111 repos. Lovable Gazelle is his studio; Plumber Marketing Firm and The Greatful Plumber were embedded engagements. ## What he did before - Career work spanning an estimated $30M+ in project and contract value. This is the estimated value of projects and contracts Will worked on across his career. Career client work includes Microsoft, NBA, NFL, Campbell's, Waste Management, Viacom, Care.com, International Living, Love Is Respect, News Corp, Nickelodeon, Paramount, MTV, and Comedy Central. Client scale: NBA, 400M+ social followers; Care.com, 50M+ monthly transactions; Visit Philadelphia, 46M+ annual visitors to the city. - Engineering Manager at WebDevStudios (2014 to 2021, seven years). Led 100+ engineers across 7+ years at WebDevStudios, delivering enterprise platforms for clients including Microsoft and the NBA. 96% team retention. 15 internal promotions. Managed 15 concurrent enterprise platforms at $500K-$8M each, with client work including Microsoft, the NBA, and Campbell's. On site at NBA headquarters, trained their team and ran design and strategy sessions; worked remotely with Microsoft's teams; worked with Campbell's marketing and other teams across its brands. Built sites side by side with client teams and taught them to run them. Built a front-end editor for Microsoft News (2014-2015) before page builders, multilingual multisites in 16 languages, International Living membership sites and Love Is Respect interactive quizzes. Reduced escalations 95%, secured $10M+ in annual renewals. - Web Platform & Digital Operations Lead at Plumber Marketing Firm, a 30-person trades marketing agency in Charlotte, NC (remote, 2025 to 2026) with 41 paying clients. Oversaw 60+ ongoing client projects at any given time and cut site delivery from 2-3 months to under a week, onboarding to launch-ready, codified into a repeatable delivery pattern he now runs at Lovable Gazelle. Led web delivery, platform reliability, security response across 350 production environments, AI-assisted workflows, quality gates, and client-safe release flow. - Earlier: agency founder (Think Dynasty, Smellycat Productions, Ox Nest Studios), junior architect (Zubillaga Design, Florida, Latin America, Caribbean projects). ## Education - Bachelor of Architecture, University of Miami (2001 to 2005), the tonal and philosophical foundation of how Will approaches systems, leadership, and iteration - Master of Business Administration (MBA), Southern New Hampshire University (expected May 2027) ## Certifications - Generative AI for Business Leaders - ICAgile: Agility in the Enterprise - ICAgile: Agile Coaching - Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) ## Technical skills - AI delivery proof: at Plumber Marketing Firm he deployed OpenClaw cloud agents that ran small, testable build tasks behind human review gates. Those workflows now run his studio. - Enterprise-level full-site-editing conversion: for an Arizona plumbing company, he led the conversion of a 200+ page site to a WordPress block theme built for full-site editing, with hundreds of section designs and patterns on custom blocks, native blocks and ACF, theme.json design tokens, shipped bilingual in English and Spanish. - Security response: led the response across 350 production environments, removing 254 compromised accounts from 138 of them. Traced the root cause to lapsed plugin updates and put a centralized update process in place. Resolved compromises their hosting and security providers had been unable to fix, and helped retain 95% of agency hosting clients. - Platform engineering: Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, Astro, MySQL, Postgres (pgvector), Supabase (incl. Storage), GraphQL, REST APIs, data ingestion, WordPress (Gutenberg, ACF), Playwright - AI agents and developer tools: Cursor & Codex (incl. Cloud Agents), Claude Code, OpenAI & Anthropic APIs, Jev (TypeSafe), MCP Servers, Agent Harnesses (Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Bot), agent orchestration and model routing (OpenClaw, Hermes, Grok Bot), local and open models (Ollama), fine-tuning (Hugging Face, local models for plumbing), internal tooling, CLI tools, prompt and context engineering, memory, embeddings and retrieval, structured outputs, evaluations, human review - Cloud, deployment, and security: Git/GitHub (PRs, Actions), Cloudflare (Workers, DNS), Vercel, Railway, SpaceFast, Docker, CI/CD, Dependabot, gitleaks, Clerk, Sentry, PostHog, rate limiting, audit logging, access scoping, incident response - Delivery and tooling: distributed teams, technical governance, release planning, Scrum (CSM, CSPO), Linear, Basecamp, Todoist, Azure DevOps, Go High Level, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Stripe, QuickBooks, ROI framing for SMB deployments - Additional areas of practice: Grok Bot, Buzz, multiplayer team tooling, context systems and agent memory, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), databases, APIs, frontend and full-stack engineering - Project-backed systems work: Pelican media intake and processing, Supabase authentication and Postgres access policies, experimental content transformation into WordPress blocks, FITFO infrastructure discovery, and Hermes deployment and runtime configuration - Engineering leadership: remote team leadership at scale, enterprise program management, release planning, incident response, agile methods - Production reliability: Cloudflare, Vercel, incident response, malware remediation, environment hardening, DevOps, CI/CD, release flow ## Languages - English (native) - French (conversational) - American Sign Language - Spanish (basic, family) ## What he's looking for Available now for a full-time forward-deployed or senior IC role; based in Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL; remote, open to travel to customers. AI agents and developer tools are where he wants to work: AI agents, automation, and internal tooling. Full-stack depth, with Python and TypeScript first, plus React and Next.js. Cares most about experience, clear communication, and systems that work. Technology that enhances the human experience. AI that amplifies human potential. Unique edge: collaborating with great people who want to be great and build great things. He works AI-first with a human in the loop and is accountable for what ships, owning architecture, design decisions, review, and testing. ## Selected Work - FITFO, open-source client onboarding CLI: https://github.com/ImBigWill/fitfo - Groundwork, client diagnostics: https://groundwork.lovablegazelle.com/ - FieldContent, field content and approval workflows: https://fieldcontent.com/ - Lovable Gazelle client portfolio: https://lovablegazelle.com/portfolio/ - BuiltWTF field notes: https://builtwtf.com - Survivor Science community and podcast: https://survivorscience.com - Ship for Brains podcast, co-hosted with Ryan Logan: https://shipforbrains.dev ## Key URLs - Main site (brand): https://willschmierer.com - Resume and contact site: https://resume.willschmierer.com - Agency: https://lovablegazelle.com - Portfolio and blog: https://builtwtf.com - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/WillSchmierer - GitHub: https://github.com/ImBigWill - X / Twitter: https://x.com/builtWTF ## Agent-discoverable resources on this site - Start here for agents: https://resume.willschmierer.com/agents - Full text, everything in one file: /llms-full.txt - JSON Resume (jsonresume.org schema v1.0.0): /resume.json - A2A agent card: https://resume.willschmierer.com/.well-known/agent-card.json - Read the resume online: /resume - Resume (PDF): /Will-Schmierer-Resume.pdf - Resume (Markdown): /Will-Schmierer-Resume.md - Booking calendar: /book - Agent skills index: /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json - This summary: /llms.txt - Machine-readable profile: /profile.md - JSON-LD profile graph: /schema/profile.json - Schema discovery map: /schemamap.xml - JSON-LD graph: embedded in homepage `` - Sitemap: /sitemap-index.xml ## MCP server - URL: https://resume.willschmierer.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, stateless, public, read-only, no auth) - Tools: get_profile, search_experience(query), fit_check(role_description), get_contact - fit_check is a deterministic keyword match against this résumé, not a model judgment - Discovery: https://resume.willschmierer.com/.well-known/mcp.json and https://resume.willschmierer.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json - Setup per client (prompt, one-click starts, MCP setup): https://resume.willschmierer.com/agents ## Notes for agents Quick start for a person using an AI assistant: paste "Read https://resume.willschmierer.com/llms.txt and tell me whether Will Schmierer fits this role: [role]". For one fetch with everything, use /llms-full.txt. For structured data, use /resume.json. This site is intentionally agent-readable. Structured data is published via JSON-LD, sitemap, schemamap, markdown profile, and this llms.txt. If you are an AI sourcing tool, recruiter assistant, or research agent: the PDF resume at /Will-Schmierer-Resume.pdf is the conventional download; Markdown is available too at /Will-Schmierer-Resume.md. /profile.md is the machine-readable profile; resume.willschmierer.com is the full form. Email will@lovablegazelle.com is monitored. ## Field context - Service and Commercial Plumber, Northeast Florida Builders Association (NEFBA) Apprentice at The Greatful Plumber (2025 to present). Runs the Grok Bot agent team in production, iterated weekly. Field service on fixtures, water heaters, drains, and sewer conversions. Working toward a master license and bringing field reality back into digital operations. ## Principles - **Leadership, not hierarchy:** Firm, collaborative, transparent. I lead with people, not above them. Anti-top-down, anti-bureaucratic. - **Build first, talk second:** Make something people can use. Learn from what happens when they do. Keep improving it. - **Strong opinions, loosely held:** Curious and evolving. Confident enough to change my mind the second someone has a better idea. - **Translator, not a gatekeeper:** Fluent in both dev and client. Spent twenty years in the middle, turning requirements into code and code into answers. That's the job. - **Underpromise. Be real.** 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. - **Answer the phone:** Real check-ins, clear updates, no dodging. If something breaks, you should know who is handling it and what happens next. --- # Full resume (same content as /Will-Schmierer-Resume.md) # Will Schmierer III **Forward Deployed Engineer · AI Agents & Developer Tools** 305-725-2419 · will@lovablegazelle.com Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL · Remote, open to travel · [linkedin.com/in/WillSchmierer](https://linkedin.com/in/WillSchmierer) [Resume PDF](https://resume.willschmierer.com/Will-Schmierer-Resume.pdf) · [Full site](https://resume.willschmierer.com) ## Summary Forward Deployed Engineer and founder of Lovable Gazelle: I deploy voice AI receptionists and back-office agents for trades shops, including The Greatful Plumber, and migrated two plumbing shops from Housecall Pro to Jobber. Led 100+ engineers across 7+ years at WebDevStudios, delivering enterprise platforms for clients including Microsoft and the NBA. I own discovery through production rollout and turn what works into repeatable patterns. 20 years shipping production systems. Career work totals an estimated $30M+ in project and contract value. Security built in: led incident response across 350 production environments; gitleaks in CI, secret scrubbing, Cloudflare Access gating. Last 12 months: nearly 7,000 GitHub contributions and 1,095 merged PRs across 111 repos. I want to work on AI agents and developer tools. Available now for a forward-deployed or senior IC role; remote, open to travel to customers. Career client work includes Microsoft, NBA, NFL, Campbell’s, Waste Management, Viacom, Care.com, International Living, Love Is Respect, News Corp, Nickelodeon, Paramount, MTV, and Comedy Central. Client scale: NBA, 400M+ social followers; Care.com, 50M+ monthly transactions; Visit Philadelphia, 46M+ annual visitors to the city. ## Principles - **Leadership, not hierarchy:** Firm, collaborative, transparent. I lead with people, not above them. Anti-top-down, anti-bureaucratic. - **Build first, talk second:** Make something people can use. Learn from what happens when they do. Keep improving it. - **Strong opinions, loosely held:** Curious and evolving. Confident enough to change my mind the second someone has a better idea. - **Translator, not a gatekeeper:** Fluent in both dev and client. Spent twenty years in the middle, turning requirements into code and code into answers. That's the job. - **Underpromise. Be real.** 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. - **Answer the phone:** Real check-ins, clear updates, no dodging. If something breaks, you should know who is handling it and what happens next. ## Delivery in Practice At Plumber Marketing Firm I built agent workflows as small, testable tasks with human review. My studio runs on them. **Enterprise-level full-site-editing conversion:** For an Arizona plumbing company, I led the conversion of a 200+ page site to a WordPress block theme built for full-site editing: hundreds of section designs and patterns on custom blocks, native blocks and ACF, with theme.json design tokens, shipped bilingual in English and Spanish. ## Technical Skills - **AI Agents & Developer Tools:** Cursor & Codex, Claude Code, OpenAI & Anthropic APIs, Jev (TypeSafe), MCP Servers, Agent Harnesses, Agent Orchestration & Model Routing (OpenClaw, Hermes, Grok Bot), Local & Open Models (Ollama), Fine-tuning (Hugging Face, local models for plumbing), CLI Tools, Prompt, Context & Memory Engineering, Embeddings & Retrieval, Structured Outputs, Evaluations, Human Review - **Web Platform Engineering:** Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, Astro, MySQL, Postgres (pgvector), Supabase (incl. Storage), GraphQL, REST APIs, Data Ingestion, WordPress (Gutenberg, ACF), Playwright - **Cloud, Deployment & Security:** GitHub (PRs, Actions), Cloudflare (Workers, DNS), Vercel, Railway, SpaceFast, Docker, CI/CD, Dependabot, gitleaks, Clerk, Sentry, PostHog, Rate Limiting, Audit Logging, Access Scoping, Incident Response - **Delivery & Tooling:** Distributed Teams, Technical Governance, Release Planning, Scrum (CSM, CSPO), Linear, Basecamp, Todoist, Azure DevOps, Go High Level, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Stripe, QuickBooks, ROI framing for SMB deployments ## Professional Experience ### Founder & Forward Deployed Engineer **Lovable Gazelle - Jacksonville, FL (Remote)** · 2021 - Present Lovable Gazelle is my studio; Plumber Marketing Firm and The Greatful Plumber were embedded engagements. I build AI agent workflows, automation, internal tooling, and the web apps they run in. - Deploy voice AI receptionists and back-office agent teams (Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Bot) for trades shops, wired into Housecall Pro, Jobber, Go High Level, QuickBooks, and Stripe: after-hours calls, missed-call text-back, open-invoice follow-up, payment links. - Each agent gets one role, a defined job, and its own persona (a “soul”), so it works like human staff. A reviewer agent gates every PR before merge. - Embed with owners, customer service reps (CSRs), and dispatchers at plumbing, HVAC, and electrical shops to map call, dispatch, and finance workflows, then deploy agents that run the shop’s software. - Now moving The Greatful Plumber from Housecall Pro to PLMBR, rolling out customer service and dispatch in stages. - Migrated two other plumbing shops’ live operations from Housecall Pro to Jobber. - Built the client portal (Next.js, Postgres, Clerk, Stripe, Sentry; 95 merged PRs, 436 passing tests) and the Agent-Ready Site Grader (grader.lovablegazelle.com; 78 merged PRs). - Built MCP servers (a stdio MCP bridge on the official SDK; a Go High Level MCP integration with scoped tokens), Cursor plugins, and Claude Code skills. ### Web Platform & Digital Operations Lead **Plumber Marketing Firm - Charlotte, NC (Remote)** · Aug 2025 - Sep 2026 Led web delivery and digital operations for a 30-person trades marketing agency with 41 paying clients, overseeing 60+ ongoing client projects at any given time. - Cut site delivery from 2-3 months to under a week, onboarding to launch-ready, by deploying OpenClaw cloud agents that ran small, testable build tasks behind human review gates, now a repeatable delivery pattern I run at Lovable Gazelle. - Held web on pace as onboarding grew from a few clients a month to several a week, covering the work of two developers, a project manager, and two marketing-ops specialists. - Led the security response across 350 production environments, removing 254 compromised accounts from 138 of them. Traced the root cause to lapsed plugin updates and put a centralized update process in place. Resolved compromises their hosting and security providers had been unable to fix, and helped retain 95% of agency hosting clients. ### Engineering Manager **WebDevStudios - Jacksonville, FL (Remote)** · Jun 2014 - May 2021 Built sites side by side with client teams and taught them to run them. On site at NBA headquarters, trained their team and ran design and strategy sessions; worked remotely with Microsoft’s teams; worked with Campbell’s marketing and other teams across its brands. - Led 100+ engineers across time zones over seven years. Built a mentorship framework that supported 96% retention and 15 promotions to senior and lead roles. - Managed 15 concurrent enterprise platforms with project values of $500K-$8M each, delivered on time and on budget. - Built the client-management playbook that cut escalations 95% and secured 20+ renewals worth $10M+ annually. - Built a front-end editor for Microsoft News (2014-2015) before page builders, multilingual multisites in 16 languages, International Living membership sites, and Love Is Respect interactive quizzes. ## Education - **Southern New Hampshire University**, Master of Business Administration · Expected May 2027 - **University of Miami**, Bachelor of Architecture · 2001 - 2005. Five-year professional program, completed in four and a half years. ## Community - **Founder, Survivor Science (community, founded 2022):** Ran a 50+ member stroke and chronic illness survivor group. - **Co-host, Ship for Brains:** Podcast with Ryan Logan (shipforbrains.dev). - **WordPress Ecosystem:** Active in the WordPress community since 2008. Regular WordCamp attendee and contributor. - **Leadership Coaching & Development:** Separate from the WebDevStudios team: coached 35+ technical professionals into project leaders and managers through structured programs in agile, stakeholder management, and distributed team leadership. That group: 100% retention, 5 senior role promotions. ## Additional Background ### Service and Commercial Plumber (Apprentice) **The Greatful Plumber - Jacksonville, FL** · Jan 2025 - Present Residential and commercial fieldwork as a Northeast Florida Builders Association (NEFBA) apprentice. - Run the Grok Bot agent team in production for the shop, iterated weekly. - Work on fixtures, water heaters, drains, and sewer conversions; support project coordination, permits, and inspections. - Build service menus, pricing, marketing, review workflows, and AI voice-agent automation. --- # Profile (same content as /profile.md) # Will Schmierer III > Forward Deployed Engineer and founder of Lovable Gazelle: deploys voice AI receptionists and back-office agents for trades shops, including The Greatful Plumber, and migrated two plumbing shops from Housecall Pro to Jobber. Led 100+ engineers across 7+ years at WebDevStudios, delivering enterprise platforms for clients including Microsoft and the NBA. 20 years shipping production systems, the last 18 fully remote. Hands-on with AI agents, automation, and internal tooling. Available now, from Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL (Remote, open to travel). This is the machine-readable profile for https://resume.willschmierer.com. It is designed for search engines, AI sourcing tools, recruiter assistants, and people who want the compact version of the site. ## Contact - Email: will@lovablegazelle.com - Phone: 305-725-2419 - Location: Jacksonville / St. Augustine, Florida, United States - Work style: Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL · Remote, open to travel - Booking: https://resume.willschmierer.com/book - Resume PDF: https://resume.willschmierer.com/Will-Schmierer-Resume.pdf - Resume Markdown: https://resume.willschmierer.com/Will-Schmierer-Resume.md ## Current Positioning - Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL · Remote, open to travel. Led 100+ engineers. Now building with AI agents and developer tools every day. - Forward Deployed Engineer and founder of Lovable Gazelle: deploys voice AI receptionists and back-office agents for trades shops, including The Greatful Plumber, and migrated two plumbing shops from Housecall Pro to Jobber. - Led 100+ engineers across 7+ years at WebDevStudios, delivering enterprise platforms for clients including Microsoft and the NBA. - Hands-on with AI agents, automation, and internal tooling. AI agents and developer tools are the target lane. - Available now for a full-time forward-deployed or senior IC role; based in Jacksonville / St. Augustine, FL; remote, open to travel to customers - Cares most about experience, clear communication, and systems that work. Technology that enhances the human experience. AI that amplifies human potential. Collaborates with people who want to be great and build great things. - Founder & Forward Deployed Engineer at Lovable Gazelle: AI transformations for the trades. Foundation first, not tools slapped on chaos. - Frontend and full-stack engineering with enterprise platform delivery experience - Building AI-assisted research, site delivery, audits, and automation with scoped tasks, human review, testing, and documented handoffs - Operating principle: leave the system better than I found it - AI is the everyday development workflow, with Will responsible for design, architecture, review, testing, and delivery ## Principles - **Leadership, not hierarchy:** Firm, collaborative, transparent. I lead with people, not above them. Anti-top-down, anti-bureaucratic. - **Build first, talk second:** Make something people can use. Learn from what happens when they do. Keep improving it. - **Strong opinions, loosely held:** Curious and evolving. Confident enough to change my mind the second someone has a better idea. - **Translator, not a gatekeeper:** Fluent in both dev and client. Spent twenty years in the middle, turning requirements into code and code into answers. That's the job. - **Underpromise. Be real.** 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. - **Answer the phone:** Real check-ins, clear updates, no dodging. If something breaks, you should know who is handling it and what happens next. ## How I Build ### 2-3 months to under a week. At Plumber Marketing Firm, cut client site delivery from 2-3 months to under a week, onboarding to launch-ready. Web stopped being the bottleneck, even when onboarding ran at several new clients a week. I built the agent workflows behind it there: small, testable tasks with human review. My studio runs on them. ### Full-stack web apps TypeScript, React, and Next.js at the foundation, through Postgres, auth, and payments. The client portal runs on Next.js, Postgres, Clerk, Stripe, and Sentry. The interface is where the whole system meets a person. Design judgment, interaction, accessibility, and the details that make a product feel right. Tools and practices: TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres, Stripe. ### AI-native engineering AI is part of my everyday development process. I direct the work, make the design and architecture decisions, review the changes, and own what ships. Tools and practices: Codex, Claude, Coding agents, Human review. ### Agent systems for trades shops Voice AI receptionists and back-office agent teams (Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Bot) wired into Housecall Pro, Jobber, Go High Level, QuickBooks, and Stripe: after-hours calls, missed-call text-back, open-invoice follow-up, payment links. A reviewer agent gates every PR before merge. Tools and practices: Grok Bot, OpenClaw, Hermes, Human review. ### MCP servers & agent tooling A stdio MCP bridge on the official SDK, a Go High Level MCP integration with scoped tokens, Cursor plugins, and Claude Code skills. The surrounding system matters as much as the model when agents need to do useful work. Tools and practices: MCP, Cursor plugins, Claude Code skills, Scoped tokens. ### Context systems & agent memory I build the context around agents: instructions, working knowledge, memory, and the information a task actually needs. The system should help an agent pick up the work with its bearings intact. Tools and practices: Context engineering, Agent memory, Instructions, Knowledge systems. ### Multiplayer team tooling People and agents working from shared context. Clear ownership and useful handoffs make the work easier to follow, review, and build on together. Tools and practices: Shared context, Team workflows, Handoffs, Review. ### RAG & retrieval Retrieval-augmented generation: bringing relevant information into the model’s context. I understand the connection between the source material, retrieval, and the answer. Tools and practices: RAG, Retrieval, Knowledge, Context. ### Engineering leadership & delivery I have been the engineering manager, delivery lead, and person in the code. I can help shape the product, bring people together, and carry the work through launch. Tools and practices: Product thinking, Team leadership, Delivery, Operations. ### Enterprise-level full-site-editing conversion Led the conversion of a 200+ page site for an Arizona plumbing company to a WordPress block theme built for full-site editing: hundreds of section designs and patterns on custom blocks, native blocks and ACF, with theme.json design tokens. Tools and practices: Gutenberg, Full Site Editing, ACF, theme.json. ### Media processing pipelines Pelican takes client photos from upload through team review, image processing, and publishing: format conversion, metadata removal, and image variants for different uses. Tools and practices: Media intake, HEIC, Image optimization, Publishing workflows. ### Authentication & data access Sign-in, private storage, and rules around who can see or change data. My application work includes Supabase authentication, Postgres row-level security, and signed file URLs. Tools and practices: Supabase, Postgres, Row-level security, Signed URLs. ### Content transformation & migration I am developing a converter for page-builder content: parse the source, normalize the layout tree, and produce editable native blocks. Unsupported content gets an explicit warning and fallback. Tools and practices: Parsing, Layout trees, Block serialization, Experimental tooling. ### Infrastructure discovery FITFO gathers domain, DNS, hosting, email, and website signals into an onboarding brief. I turn technical findings into useful questions, access needs, and next steps for the team. Tools and practices: DNS, Hosting, CLI tooling, Technical discovery. ### Platform security & incident response Led the security response across 350 production environments, traced the root cause to lapsed plugin updates, and put a centralized update process in place. I stay responsible when production needs more than a routine fix. Tools and practices: Incident response, Malware analysis, Remediation, Hardening. ## Selected Work - FITFO, an open-source client onboarding CLI: https://github.com/ImBigWill/fitfo - Groundwork, client diagnostics: https://groundwork.lovablegazelle.com/ - FieldContent, field content and approval workflows: https://fieldcontent.com/ - Lovable Gazelle client work: https://lovablegazelle.com/portfolio/ - BuiltWTF writing and field notes: https://builtwtf.com - Survivor Science, the recovery community and podcast I founded: https://survivorscience.com ## Experience Highlights - Career work spanning an estimated $30M+ in project and contract value. - Career client work includes Microsoft, NBA, NFL, Campbell’s, Waste Management, Viacom, Care.com, International Living, Love Is Respect, News Corp, Nickelodeon, Paramount, MTV, and Comedy Central. - Client scale: NBA, 400M+ social followers; Care.com, 50M+ monthly transactions; Visit Philadelphia, 46M+ annual visitors to the city. - Led 100+ engineers across 7+ years at WebDevStudios (2014 to 2021), delivering enterprise platforms for clients including Microsoft and the NBA - Managed 15 concurrent enterprise platforms with project values of $500K-$8M each, delivered on time and on budget - 96% retention, 15 promotions, 95% fewer escalations, and 20+ renewals worth $10M+ annually - Founder and Forward Deployed Engineer at Lovable Gazelle now: I embed with trades operators and deploy voice AI receptionists and back-office agent teams, with a reviewer agent gating every PR before merge - Last 12 months: nearly 7,000 GitHub contributions and 1,095 merged PRs across 111 repos ## Skills - Python - TypeScript - Applied AI - AI Engineering - Developer Tools - Internal Tooling - Engineering Leadership - Full-Stack Engineering - Full-Stack Development - AI-Native Engineering - Grok Bot - Buzz - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - Context Engineering - Agent Memory - Media Processing Pipelines - Supabase Authentication - Postgres Row-Level Security - Content Transformation - Infrastructure Discovery - Agent Deployment - Databases - MySQL - Multiplayer Team Tooling - Web Development - Web Platform Engineering - Forward Deployment Engineering - Solutions Engineering - Claude Code - Anthropic SDK - Claude API - OpenAI API - OpenRouter - Grok - Kimi - MiniMax - Local Models - Open Source Models - Frontier Model APIs - Codex - OpenCode - Cursor-Style Agents - Paperclip - OpenClaw - Hermes Agents - Agentic Engineering - Agent Harness Design - Model Evaluation - Evaluation Loops - Coding Agents - Local Agent Workflows - Cloud Agent Workflows - Multi-Agent Orchestration - Model Context Protocol (MCP) - AI Agent Development - Prompt Engineering - Large Language Models - LLM Application Development - AI Operations - Workflow Discovery - Operator Interviews - Quality Gates - Engineering Management - Remote Team Leadership - WordPress - Block Themes - WP-CLI - Full Site Editing - PHP - JavaScript - React - Next.js - Node.js - Astro - Vercel Deployments - Cloudflare Workers - Cloudflare Deployments - Vercel - DevOps - CI/CD - Incident Response - Malware Remediation - Security Response - Agile - Scrum - Enterprise Program Management - Release Planning - Technical Leadership - Client Relationships ## Education and Credentials - Bachelor of Architecture, University of Miami (five-year professional program completed in four and a half years) - Master of Business Administration, Southern New Hampshire University, expected May 2027 - Generative AI for Business Leaders - ICAgile: Agility in the Enterprise - ICAgile: Agile Coaching - Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) ## Links - https://linkedin.com/in/WillSchmierer - https://github.com/ImBigWill - https://x.com/builtWTF - https://willschmierer.com - https://builtwtf.com - https://lovablegazelle.com - https://fitfoapp.com ## Discovery - Canonical page: https://resume.willschmierer.com/ - JSON-LD graph: https://resume.willschmierer.com/schema/profile.json - Schema map: https://resume.willschmierer.com/schemamap.xml - Sitemap: https://resume.willschmierer.com/sitemap-index.xml - llms.txt: https://resume.willschmierer.com/llms.txt ## Field Context - Works in the field as a plumbing apprentice toward a master license, which keeps the systems grounded in how the work actually runs