Nicholas Hopper
Senior Software Engineer at Verde Mining
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Hopper is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, distributed architectures, and cloud-native services, currently working at ForeFlight in San Antonio. He has a strong Java and microservices background, having modernized legacy platforms with Docker, Kafka, and Spring Boot across roles at USAA and iHeartMedia where he optimized ad-tech pipelines and enterprise event streaming. Nicholas blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial instincts as a General Partner at Verde Mining, demonstrating an ability to balance product needs and infrastructure reliability. An Amarillo native, he brings practical problem-solving honed supporting high-throughput systems (including campus print services and production services) and a track record of shipping resilient, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioBachelor of Science (B.S.), Major in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Major in Computer Science at Baylor University
English, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (3)
docker-compose4
docker3
static-site2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nicholashopper/mysite-frontend
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nicholashopper/simple-site
Mar 2018 - Mar 2023
Simple containerized server with static bootstrapped site.
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 1 month
docker-composecontainerizeddocker
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