Brian Hopkins
Lead Devops SRE Engineer at Xpoint
Sharpsburg, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrian Hopkins is a Lead DevOps SRE Engineer with two decades in IT and nine years focused on DevOps, cloud platforms, and automated delivery. He builds end-to-end Infrastructure as Code, champions automated provisioning, and has taught Docker and Kubernetes as a former technical trainer. Brian has held senior roles across finance, healthcare, and automotive tech, most recently leading platform reliability at Xpoint after Staff and Lead positions at FanDuel, Zip, and Canoo. An open-source contributor, he improved integrations for Rasa (notably Mattermost support and documentation) and automated WPA2-Enterprise Wi‑Fi setup for Mycroft on Raspberry Pi. Equally at home scripting infrastructure or shaping platform strategy, he brings a coder’s curiosity—especially for AI, bots, and automation—into production-grade systems. Based in Sharpsburg, Georgia, he focuses on pragmatic, observable, and repeatable delivery pipelines that scale.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (25)
apim10
network-configuration10
python10
api-design10
webhooks10
bots10
bash10
raspbian10
mattermost10
automation10
api10
openssl10
automations10
raspberry-pi10
documentation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:41 commits, 14 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Mattermost integration for the Rasa Core framework, implementing and refining the communication channel. Their work involved adding bot account support and resolving issues to ensure proper message handling and delivery. In addition to implementing features, the user also updated the documentation to accurately reflect the setup process and configurations for integrating with Mattermost, including the use of bot accounts and webhook configurations. The user also added documentation on using ngrok for local testing, and updated the slack documentation.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
MycroftAI/enclosure-picroft
May 2017 - May 2017
Mycroft interface for Raspberry Pi environment
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the project by creating and updating a script, `setup_eap_wifi.sh`, which automates the setup of WPA 2 Enterprise Wi-Fi connections on a Raspberry Pi environment. They added features like password hashing, prompting for SSID and credentials, and included functionality for rebooting after configuration. Their work focused on improving the usability and automation related to network configuration within the context of the Mycroft AI project.
raspberry-pirpimycroftrpi3raspbian
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