Rian Schmidt
About
Rian Schmidt is from Portland, Oregon, United States. Rian is currently Member of the Board of Advisors at SheScales, located in Portland, Oregon. Rian also works as Principal Consultant at Aardbird.ai, a job Rian has held since Aug 2022. Another title Rian currently holds is Chief Technology Officer at Rain the Growth Agency. In Rian's previous role as a SVP Technology at Rain the Growth Agency, Rian worked in Portland, Oregon until Feb 2020. Prior to joining Rain the Growth Agency, Rian was a Chief Technology Officer at Vadio, Inc and held the position of Chief Technology Officer at Portland, Oregon Area. Prior to that, Rian was a Head of Labs Technology, Zappos at Amazon, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jun 2011 to Aug 2014.
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Rian Schmidt's current jobs
Providing business and technical advising and networking opportunities to members of the SheScales community, the next generation of female marketing leaders.
I provide consulting on AI and Web application engineering issues including application architecture, infrastructure, security, and process. Advising on realistic applications of AI/ML and implementation of full platform designs and redesigns with open-source technologies. "His work resonates over a year later as do his recommendations."
Leadership of the Leavened engineering team on the development of industry-leading marketing analytics tools. Application of cloud, machine learning, and big data technologies to the automation of planning, measurement, and optimization of marketing based on consumer behavior.
Rian Schmidt's past jobs
Leading the software development and technology operations for the agency. Owning the technology vision as well as the strategy and execution of internal and externally-facing technical platforms, products, and services. SOC2 compliance, business intelligence, disaster recovery, cloud migration, and data analysis and visualization.
Scaled the VC-funded streaming video start-up from thousands of videos views per month to over 100MM and billions of analytics events. Hired and mentored the team, negotiated contracts, architected and prototyped the product. Built a development and production environment in Google Cloud and AWS on Mesos and Docker. Developed SOA service APIs and clients based on open source data tools and machine learning packages including Spark, Elasticsearch, scikit-learn, Cassandra, and Kafka.
Hired and mentored Zappos Labs R&D engineering. Introduced agile development and architected Amazon AWS cloud-based DevOps systems for high-availability and scalability. Hands-on Ruby on Rails, node.js, iOS, and client-side Javascript development. Liaison to Zappos production deployment and incident response teams.