Ronald Steven Schnell (born November 10, 1966) is an American computer programmer in Weston, Florida.

[3][4][5] In 1982, Schnell wrote a chat program for Telenet called NET-TALK, while at the Maryland timesharing company Dialcom; this led to helping test the BBC Micro.

[14][e] Schnell was general manager of The Technical Committee in Seattle, a court-mandated computer-software-nonprofit that monitored Microsoft's compliance with a federal court ruling.

[16] In 2015, Schnell also became CTO of the Rand Paul presidential campaign; he hosted a hackathon in San Francisco during July 2015.

[1] Schnell designed the app[h] for Paul'16 (featuring a hidden game, vote feedback, donations, and virtual-selfies).