Ryan Hofschneider
Principal Software Engineer at AppFolio
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Hofschneider is a Principal Software Engineer with eight years of focused experience building and operating SaaS platforms, with deep expertise in Identity and Access Management, security, and compliance. He has led cross-functional teams at scale—helping enterprises like Cisco unify CIAM across dozens of product teams and now shaping platform identity at AppFolio for the real estate industry. Comfortable from strategic architecture to hands-on system code, he’s known for mentoring engineers, authoring clear technical proposals, and resolving high-impact incidents. His background spans government-grade compliance and cloud-native civic tech at 18F to founding and scaling startups, reflecting an ability to bridge rigorous security requirements with product delivery. A tinkerer at heart, he contributes practical frontend and documentation improvements to open projects (e.g., Jekyll theming fixes) and enjoys surfacing small, high-leverage changes that improve developer and user experiences.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of VictoriaInformation Assurance, Information Assurance at Iowa State UniversitySoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Naval Postgraduate School
Github Skills (9)
html10
jekyll10
github9
markdown-it8
css8
markdown8
ui-design7
git7
user-experience6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
18F/development-guide
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
A set of guidelines and best practices for an awesome software engineering team
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 162 commits, 127 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the frontend of the project by importing and modifying footer and header components, as well as adding a caution tag. They also made changes to the GitHub edit path. The commits demonstrate experience with Jekyll theming, as seen in footer and header adjustments, and the user appears to be involved in incorporating and merging changes from other repositories and branches. They also updated the GitHub edit page path.
engineeringguidelinesengineering-team
18F/isildurs-bane
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
One guide template to rule them all?
Contributions:13 reviews, 99 commits, 65 PRs in 7 months
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