Chris Hoffman
Fellow Software Engineer at Digi International
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hoffman is a Fellow Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building cloud-native, developer-friendly systems from startup proofs-of-concept to enterprise IoT SaaS. He combines hands-on backend and full-stack work—contributing to notable open-source projects like CoffeeScript and hub—with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Prometheus, Go, and Azure to drive reliable, scalable deployments. His career spans leadership and consultancy roles where he emphasizes developer experience, decentralizing responsibility to enable rapid, iterative delivery. Based in Huntsville, AL, he pairs Carnegie Mellon engineering training with entrepreneurial instincts (former founder/CEO and consulting practice) and a pragmatic focus on instrumentation and automation that keeps complex systems observable and maintainable.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (35)
git10
javascript10
system-programming10
coffeescript10
compilation10
compile-time10
testing10
c1110
vim-plugin10
ruby10
c1710
vim10
go10
compile10
compiler10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ku1ik/stderred
Apr 2012 - Apr 2021
stderr in red
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on improving the functionality of the `stderred` project, a tool to display `stderr` messages in red. They added platform-specific code for macOS, used macros to improve code readability and efficiency, and refactored functions for better error handling and integration. The user also implemented features to allow runtime configuration and added tests for the core functionalities.
stderr
jashkenas/coffeescript
Feb 2010 - Mar 2010
Unfancy JavaScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the CoffeeScript repository by modifying both CoffeeScript and JavaScript code. Their work included refactoring the command-line interface, simplifying write methods, and ensuring the correct state management for watching files during compilation. They also merged a branch related to textmate highlighting, and generally made improvements to the compilation process, with changes evident across multiple files (e.g., nodes.js, lexer.js, test/test_switch.coffee)
javascript
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