Max Hoffmann
Senior Developer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMax Hoffmann is a Senior Developer at Shopify with 12 years of experience building front-end systems and platform tooling from Vancouver. He helped originate the Theme Editor/Website Builder as part of a five-person team, shipped Sections and App Blocks, and led the migration of the editor from Rails to a Koa + React architecture. A hands-on front-end engineer, Max contributes to open source—restructuring core modules and improving touch interactions in the widely used Shopify/draggable library—and blends UI polish with infrastructure work like enabling multi-region networking. He also mentors and hires engineers and maintains independent consulting work, pairing product-focused prototyping with deep implementation detail.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mittlere Reife, Mittlere Reife at AloisiuskollegIrish Leaving Certificate, Irish Leaving Certificate at Dundalk Grammar SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Dublin City University
German, English, French
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Github Skills (13)
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
javascripts10
draggable10
s69
iframe9
html6
rake6
webapp26
jquery6
ecmascript-66
security6
ruby6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/draggable
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
The JavaScript Drag & Drop library your grandparents warned you about.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 219 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on fixing issues related to touch interactions and implementing improvements to the "draggable" library. Their commits include fixing swap logic in the `swappable.js` file and addressing various touch-related problems in the `draggable.js` and `snappable.js` files. Furthermore, the user restructured the core files of Draggable, Droppable, Swappable, and Sortable, reorganizing the project's structure. The user also made changes to the mirror event handling.
javascriptjavascript-dragdrag-and-dropes6drop-library
transmission-rails/transmission-rpc-ruby
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 54 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
rpctxttransmissiontransmission-rpcfollowing
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