Chris Hoffman is a professional in their field. Colleagues describe them as "Chris was my technical lead for nearly 4 years, and before then I had the privilege of working with him indirectly when we were both on separate teams. He helped show me the ropes at Capital One, and as a technical lead taught me many things about software engineering. He has a disciplined approach to his work, and gave us both the freedom and guidance we needed to become better engineers. As a junior on the team, he ensured we were following solid principles in writing code, tests, and owning the systems we built. As I gained more experience, I gained more appreciation for having such a steady leader at the helm. He is a pragmatic leader, and showed me much in how to effectively achieve the changes / outcomes we sought. On every project we worked on together, Chris's thoughtful design, architecture & understanding of the problem domain was critical to our successes, and perhaps more importantly the avoidances of pitfalls. When issues arose as they always do, having a smart, measured tech lead was invaluable, and we were always able to continuously improve our systems due to the keen design. Throughout it all, Chris was always someone I could count on to have our backs. In life you will have special people like parents and teachers who play and outsized role in getting you to the place you are; for me at Capital One Chris was that person." and "I had the pleasure of working with Chris for over 8 years during our time in Capitalone. He is a true technologist and is proficient with a wide variety of technologies. He is very good at figuring out the architecture, design and work with multiple teams to implement solutions. He has been an integral part of several complex (business and technology) implementations during his time in Captialone. I had a great experience working with Chris and I would highly recommend Chris for Software engineering roles in other companies."