Andy Hopper
Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndy Hopper is a seasoned backend and cloud engineer with decades of software development experience and a recent focus on Microsoft workloads at Amazon Web Services. Based in Georgia, he has contributed to prominent open-source projects like the AWS Amplify CLI and the official AWS SDK for .NET, improving .NET Core function templates, CRUD code generation, and robust DynamoDB JSON serialization. He combines hands-on engineering—fixing build/packaging issues and adding integration tests—with a product-minded view of developer tooling and serverless workflows. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Andy bridges deep .NET expertise and cloud-native patterns to make developer experiences smoother and more reliable.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
json10
net10
dotnet10
cloud-infrastructure10
amazon-dynamodb10
asp-net10
dynamodb10
aws10
aws-amplify10
dotnet-core10
netcore10
cloud-services10
csharp10
cicd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-cli
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:14 commits, 21 PRs, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on enhancing the .NET Core support within the AWS Amplify CLI, specifically for function templates. They added .NET CRUD functionality, including code generation for the necessary templates and file structures. The user also addressed build and packaging issues, including the use of globbing for packaging and resolved several issues related to the testing and invocation of .NET functions with global tools. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements for the integration of trigger events with .NET Core function templates, particularly for DynamoDB and Kinesis streams.
amplify-cliaws-lambdaserverlessnotificationsstorage
aws/aws-sdk-net
Apr 2020 - May 2020
The official AWS SDK for .NET. For more information on the AWS SDK for .NET, see our web site:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy implemented and enhanced functionality related to converting DynamoDB documents to and from JSON format. They added extension methods for the `IEnumerable<Document>` type to serialize and deserialize these documents to JSON, including options for pretty-printing. They also added null checks and integration tests to ensure the robustness of the JSON conversion processes, primarily focusing on the DynamoDBv2 service.
dotnetweb-sitesdkaws-sdkcsharp
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