Jake Hoffner
President Fractional CTO CPO at Orca
Town of Woodstock, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJake Hoffner is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 25+ years of experience turning ideas into products that scale, currently serving as President and Fractional CTO/CPO at Fixpoint Labs. He co-founded Codewars and Qualified, building assessment platforms that reimagined how technical skills are measured and that scaled to millions of developers and hundreds of enterprise customers. Comfortable in the 0-to-1 phase, Jake blends design, engineering, and product strategy to rapidly validate unconventional solutions and ship world-class systems—even when resources are limited. He has led technical talent development at scale, most recently driving GenAI integration into developer assessment and learning workflows at Andela. Now he focuses on agentic, AI-powered product design and pragmatic AI adoption strategies that balance architecture, governance, and team enablement. Based in Woodstock, NY, he brings a rare mix of hands-on engineering, product leadership, and exit-stage operational experience.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Dulaney High SchoolAudio Engineer Certification Audio Engineering Sound Design Live Audio Mixing, Audio Engineer Certification Audio Engineering Sound Design Live Audio Mixing at Sheffield Audio and Video Institute
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Github Skills (137)
ruby10
computer-science10
fundamentals10
javascript10
sidekiq10
lift10
codesandbox10
science10
jruby10
algorithm10
fsm-library10
vue10
preact10
nodejs10
mongoose-plugin10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
codewars/marked-extensions
Nov 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 review, 86 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years
codewars/stateful
Dec 2013 - Jul 2021
A state machine gem with built in categorization and workflow events.
Contributions:81 commits, 11 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 years 8 months
state-machineseventsfsm-libraryfsmruby
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