Jim Schindler

Atlanta, GA USA

About Me

Reader by day, dreamer by night. I'm an engineering leader with 10+ years scaling payment and ledger systems — and the teams behind them. Currently a Senior Software Engineering Manager at FanDuel, and pursuing an MS in Computer Science through Georgia Tech's OMSCS program. I still ship: everything below is stuff I built myself.

Experience

Engineering Leadership

FanDuel

2025 – Present

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Lead the Financial Ledger teams behind platform money movement. Drove the ledger's migration to CockroachDB and champion agentic engineering practices across the org.

SeatGeek

2022 – 2025

Senior Engineering Manager, Payments & Risk

Led 12 engineers across payments, fraud/risk, and iOS. Fraud prevention strategy improved revenue ratio from 85% to 96%, saving tens of millions.

PagerDuty

2019 – 2022

Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure & Integrations

Led platform teams serving millions of daily webhook/API requests. Delivered Webhooks V3 and a monolith-to-microservices migration.

Southern Experience

2013 – 2019

Director of Engineering, Ticketing & Commerce

Grew from engineer to Director responsible for 14 engineers across ticketing and commerce teams.

Projects

Apps & Extensions

QuadTV

A Firefox extension that brings quad-box viewing to YouTube TV. Watch up to four streams simultaneously with synchronized controls.

JavaScript Firefox Extension YouTube TV

Get Extension

Peel

iOS app that transforms videos and GIFs into live stickers. Create animated stickers from your favorite moments.

Swift iOS App Store

Download on the App Store

Blue Bubble Buds

Local macOS app that analyzes your iMessage group-chat reactions. Features a Quiet Friend detector that flags members whose engagement has dropped sharply — so you know who to check in on.

Swift SwiftUI Python macOS

GitHub

Web Apps

The Schindler Family

A private family website for preserving Schindler family history across generations. Features an interactive family tree, photo archives, timeline, elder profiles, and stories — a digital home built for family, by family.

Next.js TypeScript PostgreSQL

Visit Site

Developer Tools

Claude Code Hooks Server

HTTP hooks server with a real-time web dashboard for monitoring Claude Code sessions. Track tool calls, errors, and session activity.

TypeScript HTML Claude Code Hooks

GitHub

WhisperBox

Transcribe video and audio files locally with a web UI. Privacy-first — no cloud APIs, everything runs on your machine.

Python Docker Whisper

GitHub

Home Server Dashboard

Monitoring dashboard for a home server setup. Service health, resource usage, and alerts in one place.

Self-Hosted Docker Monitoring

Private project

Open Source Contributions

Contributor

NanoClaw

AI assistant built on Anthropic's Agent SDK with WhatsApp and Telegram integrations. Contributed Telegram integration, memory features, and container improvements.

TypeScript Anthropic Agent SDK Docker

GitHub

Contributor

SCV-Code

StarCraft SCV sound effects for Claude Code hooks. Because your AI coding assistant should sound like it's building a Command Center.

Shell Claude Code Hooks

GitHub

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