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

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 · Build first, talk second · Strong opinions, loosely held · Translator, not a gatekeeper · Underpromise. Be real · Answer the phone

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

2021 - Present

Lovable Gazelle - Jacksonville, FL (Remote)

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

Aug 2025 - Sep 2026

Plumber Marketing Firm - Charlotte, NC (Remote)

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

Jun 2014 - May 2021

WebDevStudios - Jacksonville, FL (Remote)

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)

Jan 2025 - Present

The Greatful Plumber - Jacksonville, FL

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.