Craig Schmidt is a professional in their field. Colleagues describe them as "Craig is an incredibly productive researcher. Not only does he develop models in a fraction of the time that most people with comparable expertise would take, he also writes code that will scale at the enterprise level. His prior hedge fund expertise in deploying embarrassingly parallel financial models as well as his most recent work at FirstFuel Software shows that he cares as much about the science as the viability of a scalable deployment. Whether it's Python or R or C++, his code has the ability to seamlessly scale in situations where commercial modeling packages fall short. Craig is also passionate about continually trying out new data science algorithms, and is willing to step outside of his comfort zone to find the optimal solution at each step of the way. He is also an incredible mentor, and a joy to work with."