Richard Hoffman
richard.j.hoffman@gmail.com
Experience
Senior Software Engineer II - HubSpot
2021 - Present
Accomplishments:
- Drive technical direction and cross-team execution for scalable, configurable sales outreach automation that enables customers to tailor workflows to their business needs.
- Lead collaboration across multiple product teams to design and deliver reliable, user-facing features.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to strengthen engineering practices and delivery across teams.
- Build and operate high-throughput services that process tens of millions of tasks and handle millions of requests daily.
- Establish and enforce quality controls for AI-assisted development to improve delivery speed while maintaining engineering standards.
Technologies:
Java, MySQL, HBase, AWS, Python, Claude, OpenAI
Senior Software Engineer - Retailnext
2018 - 2021
Accomplishments:
- Maintained a cloud-based microservice architecture across AWS and GCP using Terraform.
- Processed positional analytics data to support real-time reporting.
- Integrated point-of-sale data with third-party services to support in-store positional tracking.
- Maintained services that streamed data from thousands of sensors.
- Supported the transition of the platform from AWS to GCP.
Technologies:
Go, Ruby on Rails, Terraform, Puppet, Docker, Cassandra, AWS, GCP
Lead Software Engineer - Synctree
2015 - 2018
Accomplishments:
- Led a multi-organization team in launching an educational multimedia platform for desktop, mobile, and native environments. - https://www.storybots.com
- Led a small team in delivering a social media-based e-commerce platform in under six months. - https://boo.st
- Developed internationalization and CMS backend features for Disney public websites. - https://disneyinternational.com
- Mentored developers on emerging technologies, engineering best practices, and unit testing.
Technologies:
Ruby on Rails, Node.js, AWS, Docker, React, React Native, ASP.NET, Java, Python, Firebase, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
Sr. Software Engineer - Stayhealthy
2013 - 2014
Accomplishments:
- Collaborated with product, design, and QA teams to modernize a legacy internal application and build a comprehensive test suite.
- Developed integrations with an existing fleet of kiosks to collect readings from consumer devices.
Technologies:
PHP, Symfony, ASP.NET, jQuery, WebSockets, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Sr. Software Engineer - Spokeo
2012 - 2013
Accomplishments:
Technologies:
Ruby on Rails, jQuery, MySQL
Sr. Software Engineer - Chegg, Inc.
2011 - 2012
Accomplishments:
- Integrated the acquired Homework Help product into the main site with a comprehensive test suite. - https://www.chegg.com/study
- Converted 2 million legacy Flash resources into DRM-enabled HTML5 resources.
Technologies:
PHP, ASP.NET, jQuery, MySQL
Software Engineer - Civic Resource Group
2010 - 2011
Accomplishments:
Technologies:
ASP.NET, Flash, SQL Server, jQuery
Programmer - Hydraulx
2009 - 2010
Accomplishments:
- Developed an internal render-farm status and maintenance application with live updates.
- Developed an internal seating chart application to identify users logged in at specific workstations.
Technologies:
PHP, MySQL, jQuery, ExtJS, Flash
Education
ITT Technical Institute
B.S. Digital Entertainment - 2005 - 2007
A.S. Multimedia - 2003 - 2005