Houston Hopkins
Chief Information Security Officer
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHouston Hopkins is a seasoned information security executive with 11 years of focused experience leading cloud and enterprise security across fintech and large financial institutions, currently serving as CISO at Abnormal AI. He has driven cloud security, cyber intelligence, and platform protections in fast-moving environments at Robinhood and JPMorgan Chase after a long tenure building security programs and automation at Capital One. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he combines hands-on technical chops—rooted in early identity, AD, and infrastructure automation work at PepsiCo—with strategic leadership of security teams and community organizing for fwd:cloudsec. Known for pragmatic threat-focused thinking (aptly summarized on GitHub as “cloudy, threaty, attacky stuff”), he pairs threat intelligence instincts with product-minded engineering to harden cloud platforms. His career shows a rare arc from helpdesk and provisioning roles to senior security leadership, giving him deep empathy for operational realities while shaping future-proof safeguards.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration MIS / Information Systems, Business Administration MIS / Information Systems at The University of Texas at DallasThe University of Texas at Austin
Spanish
Github Skills (75)
false-positive10
aws-services10
penetration-testing10
security10
cytoscape10
diagram10
amazon10
ecr10
hacking10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
threat-intelligence9
azure9
gcp9
lists9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
houey/aws-security-assessment-solution
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
houey/awssecurity
May 2018 - May 2021
for AWS Security material
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years
aws-securitysecurityaws
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