Chad Shaffer
Principal Engineer at AppFolio
Carlsbad, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Shaffer is a Principal Engineer based in Carlsbad, CA with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and delivering scalable, secure software and growing high-performing engineering teams. He has led cross-functional organizations and multi-year transformation efforts at companies from BAE Systems and Qualcomm to Google, MyCase, and AppFolio, specializing in decomposing monolithic releases into sustainable, composable delivery pipelines. As a former Director of Engineering, he blends people leadership—recruiting, career development, and team-building—with deep technical ownership of stability, scalability, and security. Known for tackling organizational complexity, Chad has driven tooling and process improvements that align legal, security, and engineering stakeholders while shipping practical internal platforms. He pairs an MS in Computer Science with broad language and platform experience, and brings a track record of turning large-scale problems into incremental, measurable roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at San Diego State UniversityCal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (77)
env10
ruby10
ssh10
test-coverage10
dotenv10
rust10
analyzer10
capistrano10
formatter9
code-analyzer9
compiler9
rubocop9
coverage9
automation9
linter9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cshaffer/advent_2017
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
cshaffer/dotenv
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
environment-variablesconfigurationdotenvenvvariables
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