Gene Hoffman - Co-CEO at Chia Network

Gene Hoffman

Co-CEO at Chia Network

Redwood City, California, United States

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Summary

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Gene Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and technology CEO based in Redwood City who has founded, scaled and sold multiple companies and raised over $150M across public and private markets. As Co-CEO of Permuto Capital and CEO of Chia Network he blends board-level strategy with hands-on engineering, contributing to open-source Chia projects (BLS signatures, chiapos, chia-blockchain) and building cross-platform CI/CD and build systems including ARM64 support. He brings rare operational depth in high-compliance environments—21 years including 12 years managing PCI and SSAE-16 programs for storage of 220 million credit cards—alongside experience growing teams from three founders to nearly 500 employees. A seasoned board member and turnaround advisor, Hoffman has led M&A activity with four acquisitions and three exits and serves on multiple nonprofit boards, combining entrepreneurial grit, technical fluency, and public-company governance.

8 years of coding experience

19 years of employment as a software developer

English, French

Github Skills (23)

c-language10

python10

windows10

bash10

cmake10

plot10

automated-builds10

ci-cd10

plots10

blockchain10

automated-build10

macos10

devops10

c-programming-language10

ubuntu9

Programming languages (17)

C#C++JinjaCSSRustCGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

Chia-Network/chiapos

Mar 2020 - Jan 2022

Chia Proof of Space library

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:13 releases, 108 reviews, 132 commits in 1 year 9 months

Contributions summary:Gene primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements related to the Chia Proof of Space library. They addressed issues with data types, file paths, and array bounds, ensuring the correct handling of data structures. Additionally, they made changes to plotting and proving code, including stack workarounds for Windows builds, indicating a focus on improving the core functionality of the proof-of-space system. They also contributed to the build and test infrastructure.

chia-blockchainfarmerhellman-attacksproof-of-spaceblockchain

Chia-Network/bls-signatures

Mar 2020 - Jan 2022

BLS signatures in C++, using the blst library for BLS12-381

Role in this project:

DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer

Contributions:12 releases, 111 reviews, 136 commits in 1 year 10 months

Contributions summary:Gene focused on building and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline, primarily using CMake and cibuildwheel. They implemented automated builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and also addressed dependency management issues, including adding and configuring libsodium. The user updated the project's build process and tested various Python versions, ensuring compatibility across different operating systems and architectures like ARM64. The user's commits included adjustments to the build configuration, wheel building, and testing infrastructure.

chia-blockchainbls12-381cryptographybls-signaturescpp

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