Harry Hopkinson
Solutions Architect at Cognita Schools
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHarry Hopkinson is a Solutions Architect with six years’ experience designing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses and BI solutions across government and education sectors. He blends hands-on data engineering, cloud architecture (including an Azure migration at BEIS), and team leadership to turn complex stakeholder requirements into auditable, production-ready pipelines and reports. At Cognita he focuses on system cohesion and reporting integration, drawing on prior roles at PwC and Hitachi where he led data modelling and analytics delivery. Harry also contributes front-end accessibility improvements to the popular open-source chess site Lichess, showing a practical interest in UX and keyboard-driven interactions. Trained as a historian (First Class BA), he brings strong analytical storytelling and standards-driven documentation to technical programmes.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, First Class Honours at Swansea University
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Github Skills (20)
keyboard-shortcuts10
shortcuts10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
ui-design9
react8
scala8
functional-programming7
functional-programming-language7
pip6
chess6
python6
regex6
boolean6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
lichess-org/lila
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 25 days
Contributions summary:Harry primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and adding features related to keyboard shortcuts within the lichess.org chess server. They implemented a keyboard shortcuts modal, replaced existing hotkeys, added new shortcuts, and refactored UI components. The user's contributions are centered on improving user interaction and accessibility within the puzzle and analysis pages.
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Harry-Hopkinson/vscode-pets
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Adds playful pets 🦀🐱🐶 in your VS Code window
Contributions:44 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years
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