Marcus Hof
Product Engineer at Snapify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMarcus Hof is a product engineer based in London with five years of experience building user-first web applications and shipping end-to-end features. He currently works at PostHog contributing to front-end UX improvements for a well-known open-source product analytics platform, with practical experience in React and TypeScript. Marcus is also a founder who rapidly prototypes and launches MLPs—having built Snapify and Loggl within days and iterated on real user feedback, payments, and analytics integrations. His background spans real-time synchronization, CI/CD, and full-stack type-safe tooling (tRPC + Prisma), showing a knack for connecting database-to-UI flows. Notably, his projects emphasize shipping fast, measurable outcomes: HackerNews traction, thousands of visitors, and continuous product telemetry to guide decisions.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
data-analytics10
javascript10
typescripts10
web-analytics10
analytics10
react10
typescript-types10
front-end-development9
frontend9
feature-flags4
ab-testing4
abtest4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PostHog/posthog
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
🦔 PostHog provides open-source web & product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host. Get started - free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 23 commits, 19 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily focused on enhancing the front-end components and user interface of the PostHog platform. Their contributions include implementing features like automatically persisting filter values, adding functionality to a date range selection component, and adding percentages to pie charts. They also addressed UI-related issues, such as adjusting the appearance of the Live Events icon and making improvements to the preflight check screen. The user's work involved a mix of React, TypeScript, and UI/UX adjustments, enhancing the overall user experience within the product analytics platform.
pythonabtestingdata-warehouseself-hostjavascript
PostHog/posthog-heartbeat-plugin
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
This plugin sends an event every minute to your instance
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
minuteplugin
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