Summary
Michael Hopkins is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend APIs, admin portals, and full-stack web systems, currently contributing at Shelterluv from Denver. He has a strong Laravel, MySQL, Nginx, and Linux background honed leading development at Appit Ventures and delivering production systems for startups and agencies. An active open-source maintainer, Michael publishes utility packages and starter apps on GitHub (one repo averages ~20 installs/day) and created a playful Slack integration that ports Cards Against Humanity into chat. He combines hands-on coding and server management with people and project leadership, and has long-standing experience maintaining client-facing websites since the early 2000s.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ITEC, Information Technology and E-Commerce, ITEC, Information Technology and E-Commerce at University of Denver