Lewis Hoffman
Partner at HolacracyOne, LLC
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLewis Hoffman is a seasoned software craftsman and partner based in Boulder, Colorado, with nearly two decades of experience turning ideas into production software through hands-on design, development, deployment, and service management. He specializes in software architecture and Agile practices, bringing deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, behavior-driven development, and lean delivery from roles at Pivotal Labs, Grass Commons, and other product-focused teams. Lewis has led technical direction for open-source projects like Wagn and built robust hosting and release infrastructures, pairing pragmatic engineering with collaborative practices like pair programming and TDD. His background spans building data integration and crawling systems, rich AJAX interfaces, and multilingual community platforms, showing comfort across backend, frontend, and ops. As a partner at HolacracyOne he combines product craftsmanship with organizational design experience, reflecting an interest in how governance shapes engineering outcomes. Collected across startups and community projects, his work demonstrates a rare mix of technical depth, operational ownership, and long-term commitment to open collaboration.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics and German, BS, Physics and German at Davidson CollegeMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at George Mason University
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Github Skills (34)
ruby9
rails9
ruby-on-rails9
autokey7
desktop-application7
devtools7
service-worker7
mocking7
api7
python6
django6
nodejs5
medium5
rest5
testing5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leword/boot
Sep 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:108 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 10 months
holacracyone/glassfrog-api
Aug 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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