Founder, CTO at Joyent Inc
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founder, CTO at Joyent Inc
- Past
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- Advisor at geekSessions
- Founder, President and COO at TextDrive, Inc.
- Founder and CEO at Strongspace, LLC
- Senior MCAT Chemistry Instructor at The Princeton Review and Hyperlearning
- Visiting Lecturer at UCSD Department of Pathology
- Master MCAT Trainer at The Princeton Review and Hyperlearning
- Chief Editor and Principal at SciEdit.com
- Visiting Graduate Student at Lab of Erkki Ruoslahti at the Burnham Institute
- Consultant at The Burnham Institute and Targeted Molecules Corporation
- Master CPR Instructor at St. Mary Medical Center
- Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Division of Organic Chemistry
- Teaching Assistant at UCLA Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Lab Assistant II at UCLA Dept. of Biological Chemistry
- Emergency Medical Technician at St. Mary Medical Center Emergency Dept. and Trauma Center
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
- UCLA
- UCLA
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Jason Hoffman’s Summary
As a senior business executive that focuses on technology, my efforts include
- Monitoring new technologies and assess their potential to become new products or services,
- Focusing on technologies that are most likely to generate the highest rate of return,
- Developing and maintaining relationships with key vendors (Sun, Dell, Level3 etc),
- Overseeing and advising on our internal hardware and software needs,
- Overseeing and advising the selection and involvement in open source projects, research efforts and internal projects to insure that they have the potential to add value to the company,
- Providing reliable technical assessments of potential partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.
- Explaining company products and future plans to the trade media and prominent bloggers,
- Participating in groups (industry, local users groups, academic, and government) where there are opportunities to promote the company’s reputation and to capture valuable data,
- Establishing a strong network of business partners, academics, technology thought leaders and the media (this includes "bloggers"),
- Leading in the implementation of distributed systems,
- Developing an internal culture that is logical, experimental and agile.
Jason Hoffman’s Specialties:
bioinformatics, grid computing, distributed systems, collaborative applications and deploying and scaling web applications
Jason Hoffman’s Experience
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Founder, CTO
Joyent Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Joyent Inc is a platform software company that has a number of online applications and provides infrastructure and software to a wide range of other projects and companies.
I am the senior business executive that focuses on technology, this is not the same as the senior technologist or a chief scientist of the company. My role is provide sound advice on business decisions involving technology and I am the strongest, outward-facing advocate of our company's and our partner's technologies. -
Advisor
geekSessions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — July 2008 (1 year)
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Founder, President and COO
TextDrive, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 8 months)
I founded TextDrive with Dean Allen and bootstrapped it into a profitable 12 person company in it's first year. TextDrive hosted the Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, Textpattern, PunBB and other open source projects, and it's hosting was the first to ever support Ruby on Rails applications. TextDrive then went on to develop some of the early production Ruby on Rails applications (e.g. Strongspace), and in December of 2005 we combined our efforts with Joyent and formed a new "platform" company that had an entire suite of infrastructure, hosting, applications and tools for developers.
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Founder and CEO
Strongspace, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)
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Senior MCAT Chemistry Instructor
The Princeton Review and Hyperlearning
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
June 1997 — December 2005 (8 years 7 months)
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Visiting Lecturer
UCSD Department of Pathology
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
September 1999 — September 2005 (6 years 1 month)
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Master MCAT Trainer
The Princeton Review and Hyperlearning
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
January 1999 — June 2005 (6 years 6 months)
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Chief Editor and Principal
SciEdit.com
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Research industry)
August 1998 — December 2003 (5 years 5 months)
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Visiting Graduate Student
Lab of Erkki Ruoslahti at the Burnham Institute
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
September 1997 — August 2003 (6 years)
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Consultant
The Burnham Institute and Targeted Molecules Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)
November 2000 — August 2001 (10 months)
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Master CPR Instructor
St. Mary Medical Center
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 1991 — July 1997 (6 years 4 months)
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Graduate Student Researcher
UCLA Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Division of Organic Chemistry
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
August 1996 — June 1997 (11 months)
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Teaching Assistant
UCLA Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)
September 1996 — June 1997 (10 months)
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Lab Assistant II
UCLA Dept. of Biological Chemistry
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
May 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 4 months)
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Emergency Medical Technician
St. Mary Medical Center Emergency Dept. and Trauma Center
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
January 1991 — January 1995 (4 years 1 month)
Jason Hoffman’s Education
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University of California, San Diego
PhD, Molecular Pathology, 1997 — 2003
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
1) Cancer Res. 2006 Jun 1;66(11):5696-706
2) Circulation. 2005 Sep 13;112(11):1601-11.
3) In Phage Display: A Practical Approach, T. Clackson and H. Lowman, eds. (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press).
4) Cancer Cell, 4(5), 383-391.
5) Nature Medicine, 8(7), 751-755.
6) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99(11):7444-7449
PATENTS and PATENT APPLICATIONS
1) United States patent application, Serial No 290385, filed 11/8/01. US patent no. 7,192,921 issued 20.March 2007.
2) United States patent application, Serial No 222370, filed 09/07/05. -
UCLA
MS, Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1995 — 1997
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UCLA
BS, Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1991 — 1995
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Jason Hoffman’s Groups:
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