Blog Author: Matthew Schmitz

Director of Load and Performance Testing at Dotcom-Monitor

Summary

Leads load and performance testing strategy for enterprise and high-traffic web applications
Helps organizations identify bottlenecks, improve scalability, and reduce performance risk before deployment
Works closely with engineering teams to design reliable, real-world testing scenarios for modern digital platforms

Education

BS, Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2009

Description

Matthew Schmitz is Director of Load and Performance Testing at Dotcom-Monitor. He leads engineers and developers working on LoadView, helping organizations test websites, web applications and APIs under realistic traffic and demanding enterprise workloads.

Matthew joined Dotcom-Monitor in 2012, initially working in Professional Services on performance monitoring, load testing and launch readiness. He later helped develop the company’s cloud-based performance testing tools as a Senior Web Performance Engineer and became Director of Load and Performance Testing in 2019.

Earlier in his career, Matthew held contract engineering and architecture roles at Wells Fargo and Ameriprise Financial, working on brokerage applications, performance tuning, capacity planning and load testing. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota and writes about web performance, testing and monitoring.