Mark Hopkin
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Hopkin is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and backend systems at Elastic, where he progressed from JavaScript developer to principal contributor. He specializes in Fleet and agent management across the Elastic Stack, contributing notable UI improvements in Kibana and system-index and template work in Elasticsearch, including creating .fleet-secrets and ILM-enabled templates. Comfortable bridging front-end UX and backend/DevOps concerns, he has shipped features that surface agent FQDNs, manage package policy upgrades, and maintain system index security roles. Based in Cheltenham and holding an MSci in Computer Science from Nottingham, he blends pragmatic engineering with open-source collaboration on high-profile projects used by many production deployments. Colleagues rely on him for solving cross-cutting problems where UI, data streams, and index lifecycle intersect.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSci Computer Science, MSci Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (26)
amazon-elasticsearch10
fleet10
typescript10
user-interface10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
index-management10
react10
elasticsearch-api10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:730 reviews, 124 commits, 515 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily worked on Fleet package policy configuration and UI improvements for the Kibana interface, contributing to the "elastic/kibana" repository. Their commits focused on adding features to support input packages, which included building a new component to modify asset data and manage upgrades, handling different data stream configurations, and showing pipelines and mappings. They also implemented the ability to show FQDN of agents and the related UI controls.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/elasticsearch
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 1 commit, 20 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the Fleet component of Elasticsearch, focusing on system index management and template modifications. They implemented new system indices (.fleet-secrets), and refactored existing ones, also updating related security roles. Additionally, the user worked on index template creation, including ILM policy implementation, and performed test maintenance. They demonstrated skills in Java development for the Elasticsearch ecosystem, along with aspects of DevOps related to system index configurations.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
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