Jason Hoch
Co-Founder at Nominal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Hoch is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and full-stack products. As Co-Founder of Nominal and former engineering lead at Vercel, Palantir, and Newfront, he has repeatedly taken systems from fragile to production-grade—rebuilding caching and invalidation, launching large distributed platforms, and transitioning teams to rigorous engineering practices. He thrives at the intersection of hands-on engineering and people leadership: hiring and mentoring multiple generations of engineers, designing interviews and leveling rubrics, and serving as an internally promoted manager who helped steer fast-growing orgs. His early startup and YC experience shows he can go zero-to-one quickly, prototyping integrations across heterogeneous APIs and shipping demos on customer data within minutes. Comfortable both in deep technical ops (debugging AWS incidents, deploy and CI/CD tooling) and in product-facing roles, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment to ambiguous problems. Based in New York with an MIT CS and theoretical math background, he pairs strong technical chops with an uncommon taste for mentorship and operational resilience.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Theoretical Math, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Theoretical Math at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (173)
circleci10
apollo-client10
hosting10
apollographql10
scalable10
cli10
react-hooks10
typescript10
rocket10
ui-framework10
caching10
graphql-client10
graphql10
higher-order-component10
eslint-import-resolver9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jrshoch/6.814
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:35 commits in 2 months
jhoch/jspm-loader-css-modules
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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