Tyler Hoffman
Principal R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Hoffman is a Principal R&D Engineer with 12 years of embedded and firmware-focused experience, currently helping build nRF Cloud after Nordic’s acquisition of Memfault. A Purdue CS graduate who fell into firmware at Pebble and Fitbit, he has a deep passion for developer tools and improving firmware engineering productivity—work that led him to co-found Memfault to deliver diagnostics, monitoring, and firmware delivery solutions for hardware teams. He combines hands-on embedded kernel and service coding with product-minded leadership, having led Fitbit’s Firmware Developer Productivity team and taught introductory programming at Purdue. An active contributor to community tooling and frontend improvements (notably the Interrupt community site), he blends technical depth with an emphasis on developer UX and accessibility. Based in San Francisco, he’s motivated by empowering other engineers and obsessively iterates on tools that make hardware teams faster and more reliable.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (10)
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developer-tools10
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blogger9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
memfault/interrupt
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A community for embedded software makers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 286 commits, 208 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Interrupt community website. Their commits added RSS feed and subscription links to the header and footer, improving user accessibility. They also implemented social media icons for authors and integrated SEO tags. Furthermore, the user fixed a URL issue and updated copyright information.
makersfirmwareembedded-softwaredeveloper-toolsembedded
memfault/conda-recipes
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Conda recipes that the greater firmware community may enjoy
Contributions:28 reviews, 49 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years
recipespythoncondafirmwareanaconda
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