Kevin Hoffman
Director Of Product Management at Akka
Windsor, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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RockstarKevin Hoffman is a director-level product and engineering leader with 14 years building distributed systems platforms and a strong focus on developer experience. He founded and led wasmCloud — a CNCF-edge project — and contributed the initial scaffolding and message-bus foundations that enabled its polyglot, cloud-native architecture. Kevin has held senior roles from Distinguished Engineer at Capital One to Director of Engineering and now Director of Product Management at Akka, blending hands-on systems design with product strategy. A prolific technical author and presenter (20 books; talks at KubeCon, WWDC and more), he pairs public teaching with deep implementation experience. He’s insatiably curious—comfortable shipping from “napkin drawings” to production—and even scored in the top 1% on HSK Level 2 Mandarin, reflecting uncommon cross-cultural engagement for an engineering leader.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
distributed-systems10
rust10
cloud-native10
kubernetes-pods9
webassembly9
kubernetes9
cpu6
http6
paypal6
linux6
curl6
linux-kernel6
echo6
cmd6
javac6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
wasmCloud/wasmCloud
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
wasmCloud is an open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project that enables teams to build, manage, and scale polyglot apps across any cloud, K8s, or edge.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:188 reviews, 66 commits, 94 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's commits primarily focused on the foundational scaffolding and structure of the wasmCloud project. They initiated the project with the creation of basic files such as `wasccd-local.rs` and `wasccd.rs` and built the framework for several key components like the in-process bus and NATS-based bus. Furthermore, the user's contributions included the initial setup of core dependencies and testing frameworks, laying the groundwork for future implementations of the wasmCloud platform. Their work included initial implementation of the message bus and various core functionalities.
distributed-application-developmentdistributed-applicationwasmtimesecurewebassembly-runtime
microservices-aspnetcore/es-locationreporter
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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