Whitney Schaefer
Staff Software Engineer at Hamlet
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWhitney Schaefer is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, user-focused Ruby on Rails applications for high-impact public and commercial services. She has guided architecture and technical strategy at companies from Code for America—where she helped keep critical safety-net services online for hundreds of thousands of Californians—to BackerKit, where she led feature delivery and technical debt management for a crowdfunding platform. Whitney blends hands-on backend work (including contributions to the Cloud Foundry cloud_controller_ng project improving error handling and audit events) with people leadership and cross-functional collaboration. She’s skilled at planning and executing complex migrations and integrations that minimize downtime, and at mentoring earlier-career engineers into effective contributors. Her background in both large-product teams and civic tech gives her a pragmatic, mission-driven approach to building scalable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Science and Technology Studies, Master’s Degree Science and Technology Studies at Virginia TechBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Valparaiso University
Github Skills (7)
api10
cloud-foundry10
backend10
audit-logging10
apidoc10
ruby10
sequel4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Whitney primarily focused on backend development within the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller project. Their work included modifying error codes and implementing audit events related to service brokers. The changes involved updating error handling and logging to ensure accurate reporting and debugging capabilities. Furthermore, they introduced and modified code for service plan visibility events, enhancing the audit trail.
cloud-foundrycloudfoundryruby
pivotal-legacy/osusume-js
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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