Bruce Hoff
Director Of Software Engineering at Sage Bionetworks
Renton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBruce Hoff is a Director of Software Engineering with 15+ years leading engineering and IT teams to build secure, cloud-native data platforms for biomedical research. At Sage Bionetworks he oversees DevOps for the Synapse data-sharing platform and broader IT/cloud infrastructure, blending deep Java and database experience with AWS-focused cybersecurity and FinOps practices. His background spans hands-on principal and senior engineering roles designing scalable systems for biological network and genomic data, and earlier research in simulation and intelligent systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and combines rigorous academic training with practical leadership in regulated scientific environments, often translating complex statistical and ML needs into robust production services. A strategic yet technical manager, he is comfortable moving between code, cloud cost optimization, and compliance-driven operations.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (182)
python10
data-management10
terraform10
rest-api10
django10
r10
rest10
json10
deploying10
r-package10
aws-organizations10
meta-analysis10
reproducible-research10
sage10
biomedical-informatics10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
brucehoff/Synapse-Repository-Services
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
The Synapse Repository Services project is the home of the JSON REST web services for Synapse.
Contributions:1414 pushes, 257 branches in 10 years 4 months
web-servicesjson-restrestrest-apijson
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