Alan Ridlehoover
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Cisco
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Ridlehoover is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 13+ years of experience building and scaling platform and developer-experience organizations, currently leading a 40-engineer team at Cisco’s Network Platform Engineering. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, CI/CD, and platform tooling with strong coaching instincts developed across startups and large enterprises (Microsoft, Meraki, Entelo). Known for turning monoliths into test-covered services and improving performance and deploy reliability, he pairs pragmatic engineering with empathetic leadership. Based in San Francisco, he’s also an artist and musician who brings creativity and a human-first perspective to technical teams, and once took a sabbatical to master the logistics of parenting twins.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Kennesaw State University
English
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Github Skills (52)
froala10
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rspec9
tdd9
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rich-text-editor9
lang8
idris8
html-editor8
javascript8
factory7
business-logic7
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aridlehoover/manager-README
Jun 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 10 months
first-try-software/manufacturable
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
A factory for building self-registering objects.
Contributions:6 reviews, 39 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 10 months
factory
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