Max Hoffmann
Senior Developer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMax Hoffmann is a Senior Developer at Shopify with 13 years of experience building and evolving web platforms, and has been a core contributor to the Website Builder since joining in 2015. He helped design and ship major platform features like Sections & Blocks and led the migration of the Theme Editor from Rails to a Koa + React architecture. A front-end specialist with deep web tech expertise, Max has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Shopify/draggable, improving touch interactions and core drag-and-drop structure. He mentors and interviews engineers, drives multi-region infrastructure work, and prototypes new theme platform concepts. Based in Vancouver, he combines product-focused engineering with hands-on shipping experience and a knack for simplifying complex editor UX.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mittlere Reife, Mittlere Reife at AloisiuskollegIrish Leaving Certificate, Irish Leaving Certificate at Dundalk Grammar SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Dublin City University
German, English, French
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Github Skills (12)
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
draggable10
s69
iframe9
html6
rake6
jquery6
webapp6
ruby6
security6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/draggable
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
The JavaScript Drag & Drop library your grandparents warned you about.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 219 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on fixing issues related to touch interactions and implementing improvements to the "draggable" library. Their commits include fixing swap logic in the `swappable.js` file and addressing various touch-related problems in the `draggable.js` and `snappable.js` files. Furthermore, the user restructured the core files of Draggable, Droppable, Swappable, and Sortable, reorganizing the project's structure. The user also made changes to the mirror event handling.
javascriptdrag-and-dropdraggablees6
transmission-rails/transmission-rpc-ruby
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Ruby Transmission RPC wrapper following rpc-spec.txt
Contributions:6 releases, 54 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
rpcruby
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