Chris Hopkins
Software Development Consultant at Alembic
Busan, South Korea
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Top SchoolChris Hopkins is a software development consultant with nine years' experience building full-stack, fault-tolerant applications, currently delivering production-grade systems at Alembic. Previously at the BBC he engineered scalable, concurrent services in Elixir and Ruby on AWS, progressing from trainee to junior and associate roles. He combines practical backend expertise with a strong Python habit for personal projects and a research interest in distributed machine learning—his bachelor's dissertation and accompanying code are public on GitHub. Based in Busan, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and concurrency while experimenting with ML applications such as a neural network that recognizes birdsong. Colleagues can expect a developer who bridges production engineering with reproducible ML prototypes and an appetite for exploring distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Swansea University
Github Skills (42)
ash10
elixir10
dsl10
extensible10
declarative9
database6
http-client6
sql6
rest6
phoenix-framework6
http6
websocket6
cowboy6
sql-database5
high-performance5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chrishop/francis
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
A small project to create a neural network that can recognise bird song
Contributions:12 reviews, 115 commits, 42 PRs in 1 month
songsmall-projectdeep-learningmachine-learningbird
chrishop/pogosipto
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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