Dominic Hopton
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDominic Hopton is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years building consumer-facing and developer productivity experiences, currently architecting Windows Signature Experiences at Microsoft from Kirkland, WA. He has a track record of unifying disparate client platforms at scale—most notably driving a zero-incident rebuild of Hulu’s primary browsing experience for 35M+ devices and improving hours-watched per user. Dominic blends deep hands-on engineering (multiplayer co-editing, platform migrations, app performance) with leadership as a technical DRI across large cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers into senior roles. He’s skilled at turning architectural change into repeatable delivery patterns—shipping feature flags, service-driven UI, and fine-grained rollout tooling to accelerate iteration. Outside of product engineering he cohosts a Formula 1 podcast and does post-production audio editing, showing a pragmatic creative side that surfaces in polished user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Github Skills (74)
pair-programming10
visual-studio10
javascript10
editor10
winrt10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
styles10
microsoft10
uwp10
type-check9
desktop-application9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grork/Momentvoid
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Countdown Timer for multiple platforms
Contributions:9 PRs, 102 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years
typescript
grork/StoryvoidDotNet
Sep 2022 - Apr 2024
Storyvoid targeting .NET
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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