Summary
Moritz Hoffmann is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nine years of industry experience and a PhD from ETH Zurich, currently building the incremental query maintenance stack at Materialize. He combines deep academic expertise in systems with hands-on production work on Timely and Differential Dataflow, SQL execution, query planning, and orchestration. Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Google and a long-standing researcher, he focuses on distributed systems that expose hardware performance and squeeze maximum speed and efficiency from resources. Moritz has rotated between IC and engineering manager roles, often acting as tech lead for compute-heavy teams and shipping low-level optimizations in production. He also has a history of applied research and tooling—from sensor networks and semantic-web solutions for emergency services to multi-platform deployment tools—showing a knack for turning research into practical systems. Based in Bonn, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with a pragmatic drive to make high-performance data infrastructure compact and predictable.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (BA), Computer Science, Diplom (BA), Computer Science at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, English