Michael Hoffman
Strategic Advisor
Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
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Top SchoolMichael Hoffman is a strategic advisor and seasoned technology leader who blends deep engineering chops with founder-level experience across XR, AI, IoT, and embedded systems. With a career spanning Nike, Google, and Microsoft—where he led MRTK and HoloLens work—he builds platforms and middleware that accelerate enterprise mixed-reality and spatial computing adoption. He has founded multiple companies and architected high-performance C++ real-time media and variable-data platforms, bringing a maker’s rigor to product strategy and platform scaling. Currently advising neuRealities and Mesmerise Group while guiding smart-community and e-bike safety ventures, he focuses on practical, enterprise-ready open standards and open-source approaches that future-proof investments. Known for winning an AWE “Best Developer Tool” Auggie and holding patents across digital sport and imaging, he combines a futurist’s vision with hands-on systems design. Based in Stavanger, Norway, he quietly bridges bleeding-edge research and repeatable commercial outcomes—reducing risk while unlocking global-scale XR and AI opportunity.
6 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
School of Electrical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering at University of North Carolina at CharlotteSchool of Electrical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
mrtk10
openvr10
hololens10
unity3d10
cross-platform8
arcore7
openxr7
virtual-reality4
augmented-reality4
unreal4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
m-the-hoff/COVID-19-Statistics-Analyzer
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
m-the-hoff/DataVisualizerCPP
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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