Mark Hopkins
Senior Software Architect at Sopra Banking Software
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Hopkins is a Senior Software Architect with nearly 30 years of hands-on experience in retail banking technology and 14 years in focused enterprise roles, currently shaping architecture at Sopra Banking Software from Sheffield. He combines deep expertise in Oracle databases, Java/JEE, COBOL and Unix platforms with practical leadership delivering integration layers and internet-banking interfaces for core banking systems. At Tieto he progressed from developer to technical lead, guiding cross-functional teams through Agile delivery of mortgage and savings platforms. An active open-source contributor, he improved image handling and versioning features in the widely used FitNesse acceptance-test wiki, demonstrating comfort across both legacy and modern toolchains. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectures that bridge long-lived mainframe integrations and contemporary service-oriented designs.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Studies, Computer Studies at Secondary
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
javas10
java10
version-control9
html8
css7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
unclebob/fitnesse
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
FitNesse -- The Acceptance Test Wiki
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the FitNesse project by implementing new features related to image handling within the wikitext parser. They introduced the ability to specify image width, border, and margin attributes, enhancing the flexibility of image display. These changes involved modifying the `Image` and `Link` classes in the wikitext parser and adding related tests. They also made additions to the versioning system, initially attempting to incorporate version navigation within the application.
wikiacceptancefitnesse
markhop/fitnesse
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 9 branches in 16 days
wikiacceptancefitnesse
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