Ian Hoffman
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Hoffman is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with a decade of backend-focused product engineering experience, currently shaping developer experience and cross-team coordination at Slack. He progressed through multiple backend roles at Slack after solidifying his engineering foundation at Chairish, bringing a pragmatic, hands-on approach to complex systems and shipping production-ready features. Ian pairs a liberal arts background in English Literature with formal software engineering training from App Academy, giving him a rare blend of strong communication, domain curiosity, and technical rigor. Known for rolling up his sleeves, he excels at turning ambiguous product needs into maintainable backend solutions while smoothing collaboration between product and engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature at Swarthmore CollegeSpanish Language, Spanish Language at Universidad de GranadaBerkeley High SchoolSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at App Academy
English
Github Skills (34)
hacklang10
redis10
redis-streams10
redis-client10
virtual-machine10
php10
redis-cluster10
hhvm9
golang9
go8
go-redis7
dedicated-server6
react6
dotnet5
rack4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
enjmusic/aoc_2020
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:52 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
ianjhoffman/RigatoniModular
Sep 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 164 pushes in 2 months
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