Gene Hoffman
Co-CEO at Permuto Capital
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGene Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and technology CEO with a track record of building and exiting multiple companies to PGP, Vivendi-Universal, and Amdocs, and raising over $150M across public and private markets. He has led companies from garage teams to nearly 500 employees, scaled enterprise SaaS, consumer subscription platforms, cryptography products, and blockchain infrastructure. As CEO and earlier COO/President of Chia Network, he has combined executive leadership with hands-on DevOps and CI/CD contributions to major open-source repos supporting the Chia blockchain and BLS signature tooling. Hoffman brings deep compliance and governance experience—21 years in high-compliance environments and a dozen years managing PCI and SSAE-16 for storage of 220M credit cards—paired with extensive board service across technology and energy firms. He frequently steps into turnarounds and governance roles, including audit committee chairmanships and special advisor assignments that led to successful acquisitions. Based in Redwood City, he blends entrepreneurial grit with practical engineering attention to build auditable, secure systems at scale.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Charlotte Latin SchoolUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, French
Github Skills (20)
c-language10
python10
windows10
bash10
cmake10
plot10
cicd10
blockchain10
automated-build10
macos10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
ubuntu9
libsodium9
debian8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Chia-Network/chiapos
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Chia Proof of Space library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 108 reviews, 132 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Gene primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements related to the Chia Proof of Space library. They addressed issues with data types, file paths, and array bounds, ensuring the correct handling of data structures. Additionally, they made changes to plotting and proving code, including stack workarounds for Windows builds, indicating a focus on improving the core functionality of the proof-of-space system. They also contributed to the build and test infrastructure.
chia-blockchainfarmerhellman-attacksproof-of-spaceblockchain
Chia-Network/bls-signatures
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
BLS signatures in C++, using the blst library for BLS12-381
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 111 reviews, 136 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Gene focused on building and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline, primarily using CMake and cibuildwheel. They implemented automated builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and also addressed dependency management issues, including adding and configuring libsodium. The user updated the project's build process and tested various Python versions, ensuring compatibility across different operating systems and architectures like ARM64. The user's commits included adjustments to the build configuration, wheel building, and testing infrastructure.
chia-blockchainbls12-381cryptographybls-signaturescpp
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