Kevin Hopkins
Senior Engineering Manager at Acorns
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Hopkins is a senior engineering manager and founder-minded technologist with 12+ years building and scaling web platforms, most recently leading engineering for financial wellness at Acorns after co-founding Zeta. He combines deep Ruby/Rails backend expertise (plus GraphQL and React experience) with hands-on infrastructure, data engineering, and product roadmapping, and has a track record of separating monoliths and shipping organizational tooling. Kevin has grown and coached teams up to ~20 engineers across website, CMS, acquisitions, internal tooling, and education products while driving DevOps, hiring, and cross-functional strategy. Comfortable as a full-stack contributor, he pairs pragmatic engineering with thoughtful attention to UX and operational reliability. A longtime Kanban practitioner and polyglot problem-solver, he brings founder-level ownership and a habit of translating product needs into scalable engineering systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Information Technology, B.S. Information Technology at American National UniversityPhysics, Physics at James Madison University
css3, visual basic 6, obj-c, c++, java, php, html, c#, sql, actionscript, javascript, ruby
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Github Skills (18)
targeting10
phishing9
ethereum7
titanium4
pusher4
karafka4
titanium-sdk4
appcelerator-titanium4
sdk3
appcelerator3
react3
ruby2
react-native2
documentation2
android2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AskZeta/zeta-react-challenge
Mar 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
khopkins218/TitaniumCachedImageView
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 3 months
cachingtitaniumandroidsdkappcelerator
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