Ben Hoffman
Senior Software Engineer at Deepleap Ventures
Lions Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Hoffman is a senior software engineer and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building reliable, fit-for-purpose web applications and leading distributed teams from Vancouver to Lions Bay, BC. He combines hands-on front-end and systems work—evidenced by contributions to react-leaflet-draw—with director- and CTO-level experience at agencies and esports companies, hiring and scaling engineering teams. Comfortable across the stack, Ben emphasizes usability, resilience under web load, and pragmatic architecture rather than technocratic complexity. His background spans R&D in blockchain and real-time systems to field engineering and experimental physics, giving him an unusual aptitude for bridging hardware, research, and production software.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Calgary
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
react10
maps9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alex3165/react-leaflet-draw
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
React component for leaflet-draw on top of react-leaflet
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `react-leaflet-draw` project by implementing and refining the component's drawing controls. Their work involved adding dynamic properties for the draw features using `componentWillReceiveProps` for updates. They addressed issues by correcting a spelling error in the project's code base. The user's changes include code updates and control re-instantiation.
react-leafletleafletreactreact-componentdraw
rexmondo/dotfiles
Feb 2014 - Nov 2021
Contributions:69 commits, 68 pushes in 7 years 10 months
vimtmuxlinuxbashdotfiles
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