Emiliano Schmid

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Emiliano Schmid

Chief Software Architect · Principal C++ Engineer

Hands-on software architect and engineering leader with 20+ years building performance-critical production systems. Deep expertise in C++, real-time video, computer vision, distributed architectures and hardware integration.

La Plata, Argentina [email protected] LinkedIn

Positioning

Architecture grounded in implementation

Founded Danaide's software development function and led architecture, implementation, team development, delivery and operation of city-scale surveillance and analytics platforms.

Primary
Chief Software Architect · Principal C++ Engineer
Leadership
Head of Software Development · Chief Software Architect
Technical
Principal C++ Engineer · Real-Time & Distributed Systems
Experience
20+ years

Professional experience

Selected evidence

Danaide

Chief Software Architect · Technical Head · Lead Developer

  • Founded and built the software development function from the ground up.
  • Architected and implemented UltraIP VMS for scalable, continuous video management and analytics.
  • Designed Central ANPR for high-volume deployments processing millions of vehicles per day.
  • Led facial recognition and live video analytics components.
  • Developed C++ ORM and serialization frameworks using template metaprogramming.
  • Introduced GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps and Ansible.
  • Recruited, mentored and led engineers while coordinating with business and technical functions.
  • Integrated cameras, ONVIF/RTSP devices, vendor SDKs, IoT and specialized hardware.

ID Gaming / ID Interactive

Game Developer & Platform Maintainer

  • Owned the full lifecycle of multiple casino games, from feasibility and mathematical design to deployment.
  • Developed C++ game logic and maintained the shared platform.
  • Added type inference, higher-order and generic functions, and enumerated types to the LASH language.

Buenos Aires City Government project

Full-Stack Developer

Contributed to replacing a legacy budget-allocation system and created an object-oriented PHP view framework. The project was financed by the Inter-American Development Bank.

Ciudad Abierta

Independent Software Developer

Sole developer of a desktop application that automated 24-hour television programming playlists, delivered in approximately three months.

Current and selected projects

Applied systems and first-principles work

TicketMage. Applied-AI operational assistant for Jira using natural-language chat, real-time voice, files and Telegram with permission-aware actions and reports.

Ocular. Android application turning a phone into an ONVIF-compatible surveillance camera.

Trading engines. Experiments and production-oriented work in automated market analysis and trading.

Crowdfunding platform. Collaborative funding system with accounts, transactions and a secondary market.

First-principles projects. A 3D engine, a compiler targeting assembly and a Turing-machine-to-3SAT translator.

Technical skills

Core technical scope

Languages
C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Go, C, Assembler, Delphi
Modern C++
STL, Boost, RAII, ownership, templates, metaprogramming, concurrency, memory management, performance optimization
Video and networking
TCP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, WebSockets, HLS, MPEG-DASH, H.264, MJPEG, ONVIF, FFmpeg, LibAV, Live555
Distributed platforms
NATS, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, GitOps, Ansible, Linux, event systems, observability, resilience
Data
PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB
Web
.NET, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, HTML, REST, JSON, XML

Education and writing

Formal foundations and public work

Licenciatura en Informática, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), 1998-2004. Teaching Assistant in Functional Programming and Formal Languages; LIFIA research scholarship.

Author of 15 technical articles on C++, performance, software architecture, hardware integration, applied AI and distributed systems.

Browse technical articles

Claim controls

Safe public claims and source discipline

The following claims are supported by the published CV package:

  • 20+ years of professional experience.
  • Founded Danaide's software development function.
  • Systems supporting thousands of camera streams and urban-scale deployments.
  • Millions of vehicles processed per day in the largest ANPR deployments.
  • 15 published technical articles.

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