Forrest Hopkins
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Hopkins is a Software Development Engineer II in Seattle with 11 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and polished user-facing apps. Currently contributing to Amazon S3, he’s designed distributed services and parallelized video transcoding servers for livestream and VOD, and previously led full-stack solutions for constrained financial and wearable environments. Comfortable across JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Android, and cloud-native tooling, he also maintains open-source work like an Android STOMP/WebSocket client demonstrating pragmatic protocol and lifecycle refactors. Forrest combines a taste for elegant engineering with hands-on ownership—on-call rotations, product stewardship, and large-scale asset management—and a habit of exploring off-the-beaten-path technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Grand Canyon UniversityMesa Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
rxjavafx10
websocket10
java10
android-library10
javas10
websockets-client10
android-native-library10
android10
rxjava10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
printing9
spring-boot6
kotlin6
css6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
NaikSoftware/StompProtocolAndroid
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
STOMP protocol via WebSocket for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Forrest primarily focused on the Android implementation of the STOMP protocol via WebSocket. Their contributions included adding and modifying connection providers, implementing a disconnect method, and refactoring RxJava-based methods for handling messages and lifecycle events. They also updated and refactored core classes such as `StompClient` and `ConnectionProvider` to improve the library's functionality and maintainability. The user's work involved substantial changes to the underlying WebSocket connection logic and message handling within the Android environment.
android-libraryandroidstompwebsocketjava
forresthopkinsa/Braze
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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