Jake Hoffner
President Fractional CTO CPO at Fixpoint Labs
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 (98)
codewars10
code-runner10
fundamentals10
javascript10
sidekiq10
codesandbox10
algorithm10
background-processing10
vue10
preact10
algorithms10
c-programming10
data-structures10
frontend10
razor9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
qualified/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-machine
qualified/mongoidal
Oct 2014 - Jul 2021
Mongoid utilities, extended fields, revisable support, etc. Extracted from a stable production codebase
Contributions:1 review, 99 commits, 13 PRs in 6 years 9 months
mongoid
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