Toby Hoshman
Senior Software Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Hoshman is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of full‑stack experience building internal tooling and ad‑tech, currently on the engineering team at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He combines production engineering with a teaching background from Hack Reactor, where he was an instructor and TA—bringing strong mentorship and curriculum experience to cross‑functional teams. Toby is an active open‑source contributor, notably improving cloning behavior in the popular hapijs/hoek utility by adding Map/Set/Promise support and rigorous tests, showing attention to edge cases and reliability. His career blends fast‑paced startup product work at Ask Media Group with large‑scale systems at Sony, and an early hospitality management background that informs his operational mindset and people leadership.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (4)
nodejs10
javascript10
es6-promise10
testing10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hapijs/hoek
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Node utilities shared among the extended hapi universe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily contributed to the `hoek` library by enhancing and testing its cloning functionality. They added support for cloning Sets, Maps, and Promises, modifying the existing cloning logic to handle these data structures correctly. Moreover, the user wrote tests to ensure that cloned Promises resolve and reject as expected, and added more verbose testing for Map and Set cloning scenarios.
universehapiextendedhapijsnodejs
dorktobes/scheduler
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:66 pushes, 18 branches in 4 months
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