Geoffreyย Hichborn
Senior Staff SaaS Architect at Omnissa
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Hichborn is a Senior Staff SaaS Architect with 15 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud SaaS for productivity and communication tools, currently based in Mountain View. He has led SaaS operations and DevOps for Workspace ONE UEM and Workspace One Intelligence at VMware, driving rearchitectures, security hardening (including automated credential and certificate rotation), and FedRAMP ATO readiness. A hands-on engineer fluent in Ruby, AWS, and deployment automation, he has built repeatable infrastructure from CloudFormation to ECS, RDS, and serverless pipelines while standardizing microservice configuration and on-call practices. Geoffrey is also an active open-source contributor to notable Ruby projects like thoughtbot/paperclip and ruby-saml, improving file-attachment handling and SAML robustness and tests. He combines a product-minded maker ethos with deep security and compliance experience, and often favors pragmatic open-source replacements to reduce cost and increase transparency. His background in both full-stack development and operational leadership helps teams ship secure, auditable systems that improve how people work.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (12)
ruby10
security10
unit-testing10
xml10
xmlsec10
test-unit10
unit-test10
saml10
testing10
test-automation9
object-oriented-programming9
openssl9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SAML-Toolkits/ruby-saml
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
SAML SSO for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Geoffrey primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Ruby SAML toolkit. They added functionality to parse IdP metadata, extract relevant details, and fixed issues related to handling of SAML attributes. The user also addressed validation problems, specifically those related to missing certificates, and success status, improving the overall robustness of the SAML response processing. Furthermore, they implemented and modified tests to cover the new features and bug fixes.
railssaml-ssorubysamlsso
thoughtbot/paperclip
May 2012 - Jun 2012
Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Geoffrey contributed to the Paperclip library by implementing features and improving existing functionalities. They added support for Paperclip::Style in AttachmentAdapter and enhanced the content type validator to display more informative failure messages. They also improved the coverage of character restriction logic and optimized the interpolator's performance. Additionally, the user corrected language inconsistencies within the test suite.
file-attachmentattachmentrailsrubyactivemodel
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