Torben Hoffmann
Principal Strategy Advisor
Hørsholm, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
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Top SchoolTorben Hoffmann is a Principal Strategy Advisor and seasoned software engineer with 16+ years building resilient distributed systems, particularly using Erlang/OTP, and a track record of turning prototypes into certified telecom products. He blends hands-on engineering (authoring gateway software for TETRA and contributing reliability fixes to the erlcloud AWS Erlang library) with strategic leadership—shaping P&L, technical roadmaps, and high-performing delivery organizations. At Erlang Solutions and Trifork he led cultural and process change, introduced Radical Candor and mentoring structures, and designed QA frameworks that tied SDLC assessments to OKRs. He has deep expertise in protocol engineering, property-based testing, and making complex systems robust and observable across multi-region deployments. Torben also teaches kids to code and openly leverages AI to improve business development and onboarding practices—an indication of his pragmatic focus on talent and tooling as competitive advantages. Based in Denmark, he is a frequent conference speaker who enjoys combining technical depth with organisational change to deliver measurable value.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Student (en. high school), Matematisk linje (en. mathematics track), Student (en. high school), Matematisk linje (en. mathematics track) at Silkeborg AmtsgymnasiumTechnical University of Denmark
English, German, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
aws-sqs-fifo10
erlang10
aws10
amazon-sqs10
testing8
mailto6
npm6
docker6
haskell-stack6
macos6
emacs6
haskell6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
erlcloud/erlcloud
Nov 2017 - May 2018
AWS APIs library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, DDB, ELB and etc)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Torben primarily focused on improving the reliability and correctness of the Erlang AWS library. Their contributions include fixing guards for the `send_message` function within the SQS module, ensuring that the `ecs encode_host` function could handle empty host values, and protecting `auto_config` against potential errors. The user also added a missing semicolon and made unit tests pass, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and functionality.
ec2amazon-ec2erlangddbamazon
lehoff/nix-dotfiles
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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