Jeff Hoover
Managing Studio Engineer at LeadingAgile
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Hoover is a Managing Studio Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience helping organizations deliver valuable software by blending agile coaching with software craftsmanship. He teaches and embeds practices like story mapping, well-sized acceptance-driven user stories, TDD, CI, and automated testing to accelerate teams while preserving quality. Jeff moves between coaching and coding—often shipping production-ready features alongside developers—to model sustainable, testable approaches in mission-critical environments. His background spans enterprise transformations at Ford, GM, Accenture, and LeadingAgile, where he built training programs that enabled compliance and measurable process improvements. Based in Ann Arbor, he’s driven by a practical passion for improving team morale and work–life balance as much as technical outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Engineering - BSE, Bachelor of Science Engineering - BSE at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (70)
avs9
refactoring9
anemic-domain-model9
simulate8
code-kata8
whiteboard8
maintenance-mode8
airtable8
maintenance7
remote-debugging7
jansson7
cucumber-jvm7
domain-model6
vim6
winforms6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JeffHoover/tell-dont-ask-kata
Jan 2020 - Apr 2024
A legacy refactor kata, focused on the violation of the tell don't ask principle and anemic domain model
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 3 months
refactordomain-modelprincipleanemic-domain-modelviolation
JeffHoover/roman-numeral-kata
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:106 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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