Ricky Padilla
Staff Software Engineer at 1Password
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRicky Padilla is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in identity technology, digital credentials, and mobile platforms, currently leading product and engineering for verifiable credentials and the 1Password Wallet. He blends hands-on mobile engineering—shipping SDKs in Swift, Kotlin, React Native, and Flutter—with product strategy to make complex security and authentication flows feel simple and trustworthy. His work at 1Password and Passage spans end-to-end systems from native clients to backend services and developer APIs, with a focus on privacy-preserving, user-controlled identity. As a former founder and award-winning app maker, he brings product ownership and UX sensitivity from his Padilla Studio and earlier startup roots. He has also managed teams building high-throughput billing and field-worker platforms, proving he can scale both systems and organizations. Based in Denver, Ricky pairs a political science background and a web-development bootcamp with a practical, product-first approach to secure identity.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Intensive, Web Development Intensive at GalvanizeBachelor's Degree, Political Science and Government, Bachelor's Degree, Political Science and Government at Montana State University-Bozeman
Spanish
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Github Skills (77)
mobile-development10
app-framework10
passage10
1password10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
biometrics10
react10
react-native-navigation9
mapbox-gl9
authentication9
geojson9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
passageidentity/passage-react-native
Jul 2023 - May 2025
Passkey Complete for React Native - Go completely passwordless with a standalone auth solution in your React Native app with Passage by 1Password
Contributions:22 reviews, 78 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 10 months
1passwordauthgopasskeypasswordless
rickycpadilla/sesame-app
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 34 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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