Bill Hofmann
Strategic Advisor
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolBill Hofmann is a strategic advisor and senior engineering/product leader based in Berkeley with over two decades of experience building and scaling software and hardware teams across startups and large enterprises. He led global engineering organizations and platform architecture teams—most recently defining and shipping Dolby Vision technologies used from capture (including deployment on iPhone) to playback and silicon partners—while also growing mobile-social and virtual-window startups from small teams into high-velocity organizations. Known for introducing “just enough” process to enable distributed teams (Asia, Eastern Europe, and multiple time zones) to move faster, he repeatedly halved delivery cycles and scaled teams to 70+ engineers. He holds BS and MS degrees from MIT in EE and CS, is a Certified Scrum Product Owner, and is named on three patents in cloud-based technical support. Equally at home in technical strategy and hands-on delivery, Bill blends product instincts with deep signal-processing and system architecture expertise to turn complex multimedia technologies into widely adopted products.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, EE, EE and CS, BS, MS, EE, EE and CS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (6)
audio10
web-audio-api10
api10
w3c9
javascript9
dom6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
WebAudio/web-audio-api
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
The Web Audio API v1.0, developed by the W3C Audio WG
Contributions:5 commits, 23 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 months
apiv1-0javascriptaudio-apiaudio
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