Bo Lopker
Executive Director at Totem Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBo Lopker is an executive technology leader with 14 years of hands-on engineering and management experience building scalable, cost-efficient cloud systems and developer tooling. Based in San Francisco, he led infrastructure, CI/CD, notifications, and data-scaling efforts at 23andMe—halving AWS costs, owning disaster recovery, and scaling phenotype data into the billions. As Executive Director at Totem Technologies he now applies those systems and people skills to scale facilitated healing circles across North America. A pragmatic engineer at heart, Bo’s open-source QA work includes improving test coverage for widely used projects like node-sass and validating large theme collections, reflecting a strong focus on reliability and automation. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara and blends deep technical breadth with an unusual combination of interests in space, healthcare, and dancing like no one is watching.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics at UC MercedMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (9)
node-sass10
javascript10
nodejs10
testing10
json9
libsass8
chai8
sc7
scs7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Colorsublime/Colorsublime-Themes
Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
Colorsublime themes collection
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Bo focused on improving the testing framework and ensuring the quality of the theme files. They implemented tests to validate the themes.json file, checking for valid JSON structure and the absence of whitespace in titles. Furthermore, the user added and refined tests to verify the existence and correct matching of theme files and their corresponding entries in the themes.json. These changes resulted in a more robust and reliable validation process for the theme collection.
themescolor-schemedark-theme
sass/node-sass
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
:rainbow: Node.js bindings to libsass
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Bo primarily focused on improving the testing framework for the `node-sass` project. They added new tests for various CLI options, including `--source-map`, `--stdout`, and `--watch`. The contributions involved creating and modifying test cases, ensuring correct output and behavior for different command-line arguments and scenarios, demonstrating a focus on thorough testing and quality assurance.
libsasssassnode-jsjavascriptrainbow
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