Derek Hopper
Software Engineer at Stripe
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Hopper is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 13 years of industry experience and 8+ years focused on web development, currently contributing at Stripe. He favors the right tool for the job over the trendiest tech, and has a track record of establishing engineering best practices—branching strategies, code review, CI and TDD—that raise team delivery quality. Comfortable wearing many hats, Derek has shipped end-to-end systems from database schemas and APIs to front-end UIs and mobile integrations, and has led small teams as CTO at a startup. A Ruby web engineer at heart who enjoys solving problems, he combines hands-on implementation with strategic planning for long-term product direction. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he brings a practical, integration-minded approach (Stripe, Mailchimp, Twilio, Postmark) and a history of turning complex requirements into maintainable production systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Purdue University
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Github Skills (91)
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range-picker10
rails10
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ace-editor10
rich-text-editor10
javascript9
ruby9
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ruby-on-rails9
rte9
contenteditable9
drag-and-drop9
react9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
idealprojectgroup/knowledge
Aug 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 2 months
idealprojectgroup/trashman
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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