Summary
Paul Hopper is a Senior Architect based in Denver with over a decade of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade solutions across cloud, security, and payments domains. He has progressed from hands-on software and platform engineering at Sun Microsystems and CyberSource to leadership roles shaping solution architecture and go-to-market strategies at Pivotal, VMware, Moderne, and Endava. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic architectures, he has driven measurable business impact—expanding client contracts, guiding product roadmaps, and achieving outsized revenue targets. Paul blends deep technical skills (Spring, enterprise Java, CI/CD, platform architecture) with strong people leadership in presales and solutions engineering, coaching teams to close technical-business gaps. An engineer at heart, he has also championed open-source adoption and mass remediation approaches to improve customer security posture and reduce technical debt across hundreds of repositories.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Optics and Pulsed Power, BSEE Optics and Pulsed Power at Old Dominion University