Leo Hochberg
Founder at FriendFit
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarLeo Hochberg is a founder and software engineer based in Palo Alto with 12 years of experience building web platforms and startups, including LetsMaybe, Stampnik, and FriendFit. He blends hands-on backend engineering with product instincts, having improved core PHP framework behavior—enhancing file streaming, Cloudflare-aware client IP detection, and test coverage for a Kohana fork supporting PHP7. Comfortable shipping reliable server-side features, he focuses on pragmatic integrations that improve resilience and observability. As an entrepreneur in the Bay Area, he pairs startup product experience with open-source contributions that tackle subtle, production-facing issues.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
php10
request-handler10
testing8
apidoc7
api7
css-transitions6
htaccess6
stripe-payments6
css6
google-places-api6
google-geocoding-api6
javascript6
google-maps-api6
jquery6
ecommerce6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
koseven/koseven
May 2018 - May 2018
Koseven a Kohana fork compatible with PHP7
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Leo primarily focused on enhancing the `Kohana` framework's response handling capabilities. Their contributions included allowing the `Response::send_file()` method to correctly handle file resources and streams, updating documentation, and adding an exception handler. Furthermore, the user added support for detecting client IP addresses through Cloudflare headers and implemented related unit tests. These changes indicate a focus on improving core functionality and integrating with external services.
minecraftkosevenphpkohana-documentationkohana
leonar15/SelectNSpeak
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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