Ryan Schumacher
Staff Software Engineer Team Lead at Virtru
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Schumacher is a platform-focused engineering leader and Staff Software Engineer currently leading teams at Virtru with 15 years of experience building secure, developer-friendly systems. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—especially Go, Node, and TypeScript—with architecture and product stewardship, driving projects from SDKs and CLIs to scalable audit pipelines. At Virtru he led efforts to add Node/Web support to NanoTDF, improved SDK DX with tree-shakable designs, and surfaced critical scalability and security issues before customer impact. He’s co-founded startups, led engineering teams, and shipped design systems and CI workflows that raised developer productivity and test coverage. Based in Birmingham, AL, Ryan pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a passion for UX and command-line tools, and frequently mentors junior engineers through architecture and delivery. An avid open-source contributor, he leads opentdf work and enjoys crafting clean APIs and small, efficient Go binaries.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Auburn University at MontgomeryBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Auburn University
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Github contributions (5)
atlanteh/firebase-multi
May 2020 - Jun 2025
Support for multiple `firebase login` on one machine, leveraging `firebase login:ci`
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 1 month
firebasefirebase-multifirebase-multi-loginmultiple-firebase-accounts
jrschumacher/go-actions
Jun 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 40 PRs, 87 pushes in 10 months
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