Mike Hopkins
Lead Software Engineer at SEEK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMike Hopkins is a Lead Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 12 years of experience crafting polished front-end experiences and guiding engineering teams through product and platform transitions. He combines deep React/Redux and modern JS skills with practical TypeScript, GraphQL and AWS experience, while still stepping into back-end and DevOps when projects demand. A natural tech lead and mentor, he has driven cross-market unification efforts at SEEK and contributed to core user experiences at Canva and SEEK Learning. He pairs a designer’s attention to detail with test-driven development, favouring small UX improvements that yield outsized user impact. Outside work he channels creativity into art, retro-hardware coding and tabletop games—signals of a pragmatic, curious engineer who values collaboration and continuous learning.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Design Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Design Multimedia Design at Swinburne University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
visual-studio10
browser10
editor10
microsoft10
facebook10
loader10
javascript10
react10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
style-loader10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mikehdt/crystal-ui
Dec 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 7 months
mikehdt/aws-foundry-ssl
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Deploy Foundry VTT with SSL encryption in AWS using CloudFormation
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 11 months
awsaws-cloudformationfoundry-vtt
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