Alla Hoffman
Technical Lead at Grow Therapy
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlla Hoffman is a technical lead with 12 years of experience designing and shipping backend-first systems, currently leading the client matching team at Grow Therapy. She blends distributed systems and domain-driven design expertise with a full-stack sensibility, treating deployment and infrastructure as part of the code. Alla has driven measurable product and operational wins—cutting site latency by 3 seconds, improving sender reputation by 20 points, and eliminating recurring SaaS costs through thoughtful re-architecture. She advocates for engineering discipline, introducing patterns like repository-based data access, dependency injection, and stronger testing across teams. A pragmatic contributor to meaningful open-source efforts, she optimized and productionized results for the RefugeRestrooms project to better surface safe public facilities. Based in Washington, D.C., she pairs technical leadership with an uncommon interest in using code to make art and drive more extensible, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Edmund Burke SchoolBA American History English and Creative Writing, BA American History English and Creative Writing at University of Chicago
Stackoverflow
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9questions
Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
activerecord10
postgresql9
caching8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
html6
api6
octopus-deploy6
webdav6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
REFUGE restrooms indexes and maps safe restroom locations for trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 3 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Alla primarily focused on implementing and optimizing a `top_cities` method for the restroom model. They added tests to ensure the correct functionality of the method, including handling edge cases like cities with the same names in different states and case-insensitive city names. They also refactored the method for efficiency by caching the results and optimizing the SQL query, and also updated the WelcomeController to utilize the method.
safe-restroomsrestroomsindexeslgbtintersex
CityOfYs/ys
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:41 PRs, 56 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 6 months
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