Chris Hoefgen
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorChris Hoefgen is a senior software developer and technical leader with two decades of experience building high-performance SaaS products, game systems, and real-time sync platforms. Now at Whalesync, he focuses on architecting complex real-time integrations while drawing on a background that spans platform leadership at DevCycle, founding and scaling game studios, and directing live operations and product for interactive platforms like Battlesnake. He blends systems architecture (Redis, DynamoDB, Aurora), multi-language SDK development (Go, Java, C#, TypeScript, Python, WASM), and hands-on product design to ship reliable, scalable features in fast-moving startups. Comfortable toggling between IC and leadership roles, he has a track record of raising funding, exiting via acquisition, and mentoring teams to improve engineering standards. Based in Victoria, BC, his early career also includes search and backend expertise from Abebooks and leadership experience as a Corporal in the Canadian Armed Forces, which informs his discipline and team-first approach.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
sendwithus8
tailwindcss3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TinyMobGames/startupslam
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 days
TinyMobGames/vic-startup-jobs
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
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