Building a Better Web
June 19–20, 2017: Training
June 20–22, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
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Billy Hoffman

Billy Hoffman
CTO, Rigor

Website | @zoompf

Billy Hoffman is the CTO at Rigor, where he focuses on delivering best-in-class performance software. From hacking into sites as a penetration tester to optimizing performance for the Fortune 500, Billy has over a decade of deep technical experience into the inner workings of complex web applications. Billy was the lead researcher at the web security software company SPI Dynamics, where he developed and automated new techniques to exploit web vulnerabilities and spoke extensively at conferences such as Black Hat and RSA about his findings. Following SPI’s acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, Billy managed HP’s web security research group. Billy founded the web performance company Zoompf, where he developed the industry’s first site-wide performance analysis product that tells you the root cause of your performance issues. He has spoken at industry conferences such as Velocity and was a contributing author for O’Reilly’s Web Performance Daybook. Billy holds a BS in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Outside of work, Billy enjoys refinishing rooms in his house and spending time with his wife, Jill, and their three children.

Sessions

4:25pm–5:05pm Thursday, June 22, 2017
Performance Matters
Location: 210 AE
Secondary topics:  Build and automation, Designing for performance, Tools
Billy Hoffman (Rigor)
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The worst time to learn that a business-critical performance metric got worse is once a release is in production. The earlier you can detect a problem, the easier it is to resolve. Billy Hoffman explains how to integrate open source performance testing tools like Lighthouse, WebPagetest, and others into your build/CI systems, stopping performance regressions and providing transparency. Read more.