Fiona Hopkins
Staff Software Engineer at Democratic National Committee
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolFiona Hopkins is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building user-facing and infrastructure software across political tech, civic services, and developer platforms. She blends front-end leadership (Blogger, Twitter, Lens at Upstream) with hands-on systems work—contributing to projects from Stencil.js to embedded Rust for atsamd microcontrollers—so she comfortably spans web, devops, and IoT. Based in Cambridge, MA, she currently drives engineering for high-impact civic projects at the Democratic National Committee while keeping an artisan approach to code and collaboration. Known for thoughtful, kindness-first engineering, she pairs product-focused delivery with deep open-source contributions that improve cross-framework component tooling and browser compatibility.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Brown University
English
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Github Skills (37)
uart10
javascript10
atmel10
embed10
css10
typescript10
web-components10
stencil10
microcontroller10
front-end-development10
polyfills10
sys10
typescript-types10
custom-element10
embedded10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google-fabric/velocity-react
Aug 2015 - May 2019
React components for Velocity.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 82 commits, 118 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Fiona primarily focused on improving the React components within the repository. Their work includes fixing jsdom checks, refactoring existing code, and integrating new features such as `interruptBehavior`. They also added demo examples to show new features. Furthermore, they contributed to supporting React 15.5/16.0 with relevant changes to the project.
velocityreactreact-components
atsamd-rs/atsamd
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Target atsamd microcontrollers using Rust
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 2 branches in 27 days
Contributions summary:Fiona primarily focused on implementing and enhancing functionality for the `atsamd` microcontroller family. They added UART setup for various Adafruit boards and a PyPortal, demonstrating hardware integration skills. Code changes included refactoring GPIO interfaces and implementing convenience functions for I2C and UART communication. These changes involved significant modifications to board-specific pin configurations and peripheral initialization.
samd51nrf52840rustatmelsame54
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