Bunny Schaefer

About Bunny Schaefer

You know that feeling when the demo worked perfectly but your POC keeps giving you errors? That\'s where I shine. My best POCs are the ones where we hit real problems and we solve them together.I\'m Bunny, a Solutions Engineer at FusionAuth. I help dev teams get their authentication and authorization working so well they can get back to focusing on building their core product. I\'m here to help you understand how things work (or don\'t) so you can make auth decisions that support your customers with confidence.At FusionAuth, I work with everyone from startups launching their first product to enterprises handling millions of daily logins. What I love most is when a team is convinced their use cases are too tricky for us to handle and then watching them lean in during the demo as they realize we can solve it easily. When months of frustration and vendor shopping turns into \'wait, it\'s that simple?\'. That’s the best part of my job.What I actually do: Guide POCs that answer YOUR specific questions, not just the basic flows.Match the conversation to the audience, whether I’m heads down debugging webhook payloads with devs or explaining overall implementation strategies to the C-Suite.Design flows that work for your weird edge cases (everyone has them) or integrates with your legacy code.Help you figure out if FusionAuth is the best software for your use case (and tell you straight if it\'s not)Why FusionAuth: Real, human, support without the \'buy Professional Services or figure it out yourself\' conundrum. Docs that developers can actually use and APIs that make sense. Self-hosting if you want it. The big auth vendors gatekeep your access to human support, but the entire FusionAuth team is here to help and I find that refreshing.Current passion project: Bringing auth to recent grads of coding bootcamps, because even the best developers often don\'t think about authentication until they need it or it breaks. Also introducing them to CIAM as a career path niche that they likely didn\'t know existed.Sometimes I also write about auth: https://bunnysblog.onrender.com/Fun fact: I taught coding before moving into solutions engineering so I actually enjoy explaining complex things simply.

Experience

1. Technical Solutions Engineer

   FusionAuth

   Oct 2024 — Present · CO, US

   Lead demos, support implementations, run the POC process, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and represent the company at events.

Education

• General Assembly

  Software Engineering Immersive, Computer Software Engineering

  2020 — 2020