Erik Schaeffer
Engineering Manager at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolErik Schaeffer is an engineering manager with 14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades working on web applications and marketing sites across startups, higher education, and Fortune 500 environments. Based in Cupertino, he has led geographically distributed teams at Apple, guiding engineering, UX, and operations to deliver internal tools while instituting Agile practices, CI/CD, and scalable architectures. A former co‑founder and CIO, he pairs hands‑on backend work (PHP/Symfony, CakePHP, LAMP) with product and infrastructure ownership, including AWS and cloud server management. He’s known for turning struggling teams into consistent delivery engines by setting vision, standardizing lifecycle practices, and protecting focus so engineers can innovate. Erik values influence over authority, mentors senior engineers on architecture, and has a track record of bridging design, QA, and vendor partners to meet business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
St. Edward's University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
homebridge9
homekit8
filesystem7
ansible7
blackboard7
php7
python7
ssh6
privacy6
security6
google-analytics6
mobile5
siri5
automation5
intranet5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stedwards/Blackboard-Web-Services-PHP-Library
Aug 2011 - Sep 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 2 years 1 month
apiblackboardweb-services-apiphpapi-services
phpdiddy/homebridge-http-securitysystem
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
homekitconfigurablecallshomebridge-pluginhomebridge
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