Torben Hoffmann Email & Phone Number

Hørsholm, DK

London, United Kingdom, GB

Responsible for P&L, people growth, and strategy.Made Radical Candor a part of the culture in close collaboration with my colleagues and introduced the concept of a Supervising Colleague, where Individual Contributors spend a part of their time supporting the growth of their colleagues.Established a project management capability to support delivering.

Teaching kids how to program using Python.Teaming up with a school teacher.Start from mathematical problems and then learn how to solve it with the Turtle library.Then moving on to PyGame to do simple games.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

Working on a variant of AWS Lambda that allow full flexibility in what instances to run your functions on.Orchestrated by Erlang. Deployed using CloudFormation. Presented parts of it at Code BEAM STO 31st May 2018 (https://codesync.global/speaker/torben-hoffmann/).Learned a bit about Lambda, Kinesis, SQS and CloudFormation in the process.Crafted SQL parser.

Bellevue, WA, US

Align technical road-map with business objectives.Overseeing the architectural direction of Riak.Ensure that we leverage our technology stack to the fullest.Align work processes and tools to the technologies we use.Heavily involved in the SOLR improvements. Much simpler code that run 50% faster than before.Raised the testing level for a long-standing issue.

Bellevue, WA, US

Architectural responsible for the Riak Time Series product.Part of the group that revised the branching strategy to match Erlang development better.

London, United Kingdom, GB

Driving technical excellence with the company. Oversight of research projects. Responsible for road-maps for professional growth and products. Architecture and design reviews for client projects.Created and ran the first Elixir/OTP training course for ESL.

London, United Kingdom, GB

Responsible for product road-map and research projects.

Palo Alto, California, US

Working with the backend server for the Issuu web site.Design and implementation of Ad Campaign Management system. Design, implementation and property based testing of a new payment system. Lead architect on the project.

Chicago, IL, US

Turning the ISI Gateway prototype into a real product.Main responsibilities: technical architecture and creating of a property based automated test system.The main requirement was to ensure flawless connectivity to the rest of the existing system and maintain the functionality over the ISI connection to another system.New learnings: property based testing.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Creation of a prototype product using Erlang/OTP.Worked with a co-worker from April 2006 to get the idea approved and started working full time from June 2007.Interoperability test certificate for an ETSI standard achieved in April 2008.Roles in the project: "project management" for the small team (status reporting and planning), set-up of a.

Chicago, Illinois, US

I had 10 direct reports and was responsible for their performance management and personal development. Besides that I worked with process improvement in the process organisation governing the TETRA business, which also included collaboration with other business units about joint process initiatives such at the introduction of ClearQuest.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Manager for 5 people (performance management) and at the same time doing software quality assurance for the entire department and participation in the process improvement for the entire TETRA business unit.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Managed 5 people and was responsible for the software quality assurance for the entire department. Member of the local (Copenhagen) process improvement group.

Santa Clara, California, US

The site was closed down shortly after I started.

Carrollton, TX, US

Cooperation with the Technical University of Denmark.Decided to pursue a career in business instead of academics.

M.Sc.E, Computer Science, Mathmatics

Student (En. High School), Matematisk Linje (En. Mathematics Track)