Michael Hoefer
CTO And Co-Founder at Payloop
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hoefer is a seasoned software engineer, architect and CTO with over two decades in business and more than a decade of focused leadership experience building cloud platforms and engineering organizations. He co-founded startups and scaled product engineering from dorm-room prototypes to enterprise SaaS—later driving platform strategy and delivery as VP/Chief Architect at CA Technologies, Director at ServiceNow, and senior engineering leader at Salesforce. Known for hands-on contributions as much as for organizational leadership, he launched internal initiatives like static code analysis tooling and led rapid-response product builds such as Work.com during COVID-19. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he serves as CTO and Co-Founder of Payloop while also leading technical strategy at Epicurate, blending startup velocity with enterprise-grade platform thinking. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with a knack for retrofitting legacy systems for SaaS scale and an appetite for shipping under tight timelines.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (51)
plsql9
resharper8
apex8
analyzer7
java7
sfdx7
code-analysis7
swift7
refactoring7
wrench6
extensible6
linter6
salesforce-developers6
source-code-analysis6
salesforce-api6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ashtonthomas/nginx-buildpack
Jun 2016 - Jun 2023
Run NGINX in front of your app server on Heroku
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years
nginxherokuserver-appdockeron-server
forcedotcom/package-manager
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 reviews, 570 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years 10 months
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