Luke Hopkins
DevOps Team Lead at Figment
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Hopkins is a DevOps Team Lead with a decade of hands-on experience designing, securing, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure across Kubernetes, Linux, and CI/CD ecosystems. He has led teams and technical strategy at companies like Figment and Karhoo, implementing canary releases, service mesh, automated dependency management, and developer self-service environments that cut costs and speed delivery. Luke combines deep systems-level knowledge—tuning autoscaling, spot-instance clusters, and network hardening—with pragmatic tooling in Terraform, Helm, Python and Go to enable reproducible, testable deployments. He’s known for turning legacy stacks into ephemeral, observable Kubernetes platforms and for creating bespoke developer workflows (including local-to-Kubernetes dev tunnels) that reduce friction. Based in Calgary, he brings both technical leadership and a propensity for contributing practical open-source fixes to improve operational security and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at St Hugh's College OxfordBA, Economics and Politics, 2:1, BA, Economics and Politics, 2:1 at School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of LondonElementary Chinese Language Proficiency, Mandarin Chinese, Elementary Chinese Language Proficiency, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Normal UniversityGCSE Equivalents, including Maths, English, Science, Spanish, GCSE Equivalents, including Maths, English, Science, Spanish at Hillcrest School5 A Levels, Physics, Design Technology, Maths, Further Maths, Additional Further Maths, 3 A's 2 B's, 5 A Levels, Physics, Design Technology, Maths, Further Maths, Additional Further Maths, 3 A's 2 B's at Christ's Hospital
English, French, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (109)
caddyserver10
docker-container10
htpasswd10
azure-devops10
kubernetes10
openvpn10
gitlab10
go10
pki10
docker10
npm10
monitoring9
jwt9
geocoding9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lhopki01/docker-chain-builder
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:12 releases, 12 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 11 months
lhopki01/kubernetes-job-ui
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 46 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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