Summary
Callum Hopkins is an engineering manager and founder with 14 years of experience delivering scalable web and cloud-native products across startups and enterprises. He has built chatbot microservice platforms from scratch using Node, TypeScript, PHP, Redis, MySQL and AWS, guiding teams through cloud migrations and API-first architectures that scaled to high traffic. Known for building and coaching high-performing distributed teams in the UK and EMEA, he consistently earns strong manager approval and has helped several direct reports secure promotions. As founder of a community football initiative, he combines technical leadership with real-world social impact, showing a knack for translating product thinking into community outcomes. A published author (Jump Start PHP) and regular conference speaker, he brings a blend of hands-on engineering, product delivery, and public-facing advocacy that helps teams move quickly without sacrificing quality.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BDES Design for Digital media, BDES Design for Digital media at Robert Gordon University