Benjamin Hopp
Senior Director, Customer Architecture at Imply
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Hopp is a seasoned data and systems architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and scaling analytics platforms across startups and enterprise vendors. Currently Senior Director of Customer Architecture at Imply, he has returned to and advanced within the company after progressive roles leading solution and customer-facing architecture across Firebolt, Cube Dev, Upsolver, and Hortonworks. Benjamin blends deep database and big-data expertise with sales engineering instincts, enabling technical teams and customers to operationalize high-performance analytics in production. He’s comfortable straddling strategic leadership and detailed implementation—having led US solution teams, principal architecture efforts, and direct customer engagements. Based in Denver, he brings a pragmatic, product-aware approach to complex distributed systems and a proven track record of translating business needs into scalable data solutions. An uncommon strength is his history of moving between vendor and customer-facing roles, giving him exceptional empathy for both product roadmaps and real-world operational constraints.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration Management Computer Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration Management Computer Systems at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
English
Github Skills (13)
olap10
big-data10
kafka10
spark10
high-performance10
hadoop10
apache-druid10
apache10
sql10
analytics10
java10
database10
druid10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benhopp/incubator-druid
Nov 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years
incubatingidealdata-storeapachebig-data
benhopp/firebolt-db.github.io
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Firebolt documentation
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 months
firebolt
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