PJ Hoberman
Staff Engineer II at Outside
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPJ Hoberman is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping high-scale Python/Django backends and distributed systems from Denver. At Outside he has driven company-wide AI strategy, productionized RAG and semantic search across 100K+ documents, and built personalization and notification infrastructure that scales to millions of users. He combines hands-on model work (training custom embeddings with PyTorch and pgvector) with pragmatic engineering—reducing DB queries by 70% and saving teams 10–20 hours weekly through autonomous tooling. PJ has led major integration and migration efforts for millions of users, improved code coverage into the 90s, and open-sourced tooling for multi-provider LLM dependency checks. His background includes CTO experience, founding a revenue-scaled experiential company, and early full-stack work at MapMyFitness, reflecting both product instincts and operational rigor. Collected skills across AI/ML, systems architecture, and cross-functional leadership make him adept at turning research-level ideas into production outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at Colorado College
Github Skills (35)
boilerplate10
celery9
django9
cookiecutter9
docker9
heroku9
python8
project-template8
hit-counter8
tracks7
counter7
postman6
api6
cookiecutter-django6
api-platform6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pjhoberman/chatbot
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:29 commits in 17 days
pjhoberman/jobsearch
May 2020 - Jun 2021
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Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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