Jeff Hodnett
Senior Director Of Engineering - Retailer Growth at Faire
San Francisco, California, Canada
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Top SchoolJeff Hodnett is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building high-performing teams and consumer products used by millions, currently leading Retailer Growth engineering at Faire from San Francisco. He has scaled mobile organizations dramatically—growing Faire’s mobile team from 10 to 60—and led cross-functional platform, AI, and infrastructure teams to create reusable web and mobile building blocks. Prior to Faire he drove mobile and platform strategy at Airbnb through IPO-era product launches and managed 40+ person organizations spanning two countries. A hands-on former iOS developer and co‑founder (Wiith), he still contributes to tooling like a macOS app that finds unused Xcode resources, showing a penchant for developer productivity and code hygiene. Jeff blends startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery, pairing deep mobile engineering chops with a talent for scaling teams and shipping reliable, user-facing systems. He also studied American Sign Language, reflecting interests beyond core engineering that inform inclusive leadership.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University College CorkAmerican Sign Language (ASL), American Sign Language (ASL) at City College of San Francisco
English, Scottish Gaelic, French
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Github Skills (16)
xcode10
uid10
objective-c10
macos10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
refactoring9
localization8
memory-leaks6
uitableview6
cocoa-touch6
uikit6
uislider6
iphone6
cocoa6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jeffhodnett/Unused
May 2012 - Mar 2015
A Mac app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on refactoring and updating an existing macOS application designed to identify unused resources in Xcode projects. Their contributions included fixing merge conflicts, implementing new features like filtering by CSS, and updating the project to use localized strings. They also addressed universal build compatibility by adding specific image name exceptions.
unused-resourcesxcode
jeffhodnett/JHTickerView
May 2011 - Dec 2014
A custom ticker view for iOS
Contributions:8 commits in 3 years 8 months
ios
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