Erik Schaeffer is an engineering manager with 14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades working on web applications and marketing sites across startups, higher education, and Fortune 500 environments. Based in Cupertino, he has led geographically distributed teams at Apple, guiding engineering, UX, and operations to deliver internal tools while instituting Agile practices, CI/CD, and scalable architectures. A former co‑founder and CIO, he pairs hands‑on backend work (PHP/Symfony, CakePHP, LAMP) with product and infrastructure ownership, including AWS and cloud server management. He’s known for turning struggling teams into consistent delivery engines by setting vision, standardizing lifecycle practices, and protecting focus so engineers can innovate. Erik values influence over authority, mentors senior engineers on architecture, and has a track record of bridging design, QA, and vendor partners to meet business outcomes.
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