Chris Hoffman
Lead Software Engineer at Medely
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Hoffman is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools and resilient cloud-native architectures across startups and growth-stage companies in the DC-Baltimore area. He specializes in empowering teams to move faster by creating container tooling, observability helpers, and libraries that simplify deployment, metrics, and service-to-service communication. Chris has driven measurable outcomes—migrating critical APIs to DynamoDB to cut storage costs and instrumenting Honeycomb and Prometheus wrappers to improve telemetry adoption. Comfortable across the stack, he has repeatedly stepped into ops-heavy gaps (Chef, Terraform, AWS) to launch services and stabilize high-throughput pipelines using Kafka. Known for turning operational complexity into developer-facing platforms, he blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and evangelism to scale both systems and teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (130)
perl10
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ruby-client10
spinach10
avro10
client-library10
aspect10
vault10
width10
carrier10
aspect-ratio10
deprecated10
dotnet9
golang9
service-discovery9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yarmiganosca/shell_mock
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
WebMock for shell commands
Contributions:80 commits, 4 PRs, 72 pushes in 4 years 10 months
webmockshellbash
yarmiganosca/active_record_callbacks_cop
Jul 2019 - Dec 2024
Don't write ActiveRecord callbacks. This will help you stop.
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
callbacksactiverecord-callbacksrailsstopruby
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