Primary Job Title Owner, Vice President Founder & CTO Primary Organization Kitware
Location Albany, New York, United States Regions East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Mr. Hoffman is a founder of Kitware, and he currently serves as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). He is the original author and lead architect of CMake, an open-source, cross-platform build and configuration tool that is used by hundreds of projects around the world, and he is the co-author of the accompanying text, “Mastering CMake.” Using over 20
years of experience with large software systems development, Mr. Hoffman is also a major technical contributor to Kitware’s Visualization Toolkit, Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit and ParaView projects.
As CTO, Mr. Hoffman’s emphases are on software development methodologies and the establishment of best practices across the breadth of Kitware’s development efforts. As one of the visionaries who leads the quality software process efforts at Kitware, Mr. Hoffman has been instrumental in adopting agile programming practices, fueling Kitware’s software development. He is a frequent speaker on these subjects who has appeared at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and has spoken at the Google Tech Talks series.
Mr. Hoffman received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Prior to the formation of Kitware, he spent nine years at GE’s Research Center, working in the Computer Vision Group. He has planned and taught several graduate-level courses at RPI as well as a course in object-oriented programming at New York University.
