Phil Hopkins
Principal Engineer at Rackspace Managed Hosting
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Hopkins is a Principal Engineer based in San Antonio with 13 years of hands-on experience building and teaching cloud infrastructure at Rackspace. He holds advanced Linux and database certifications (RHCE, RHCA, CMDBA) and blends deep systems expertise with an instructor's knack for clear technical communication. At Rackspace he progressed from Cloud Technology Instructor to OpenStack Instructor and now leads engineering efforts, focusing on reliable, production-grade cloud deployments. He contributes to OpenStack manuals, improving installation guides and configuration examples for core services like Keystone, Nova, Neutron and Glance—work that helps operators avoid costly misconfigurations. Known for translating complex distributed systems into actionable documentation and processes, he pairs practical troubleshooting skill with architectural thinking.
13 years of coding experience
BSE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, BSE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of South Florida
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
openstack10
documentation10
installers9
postinstall9
installer9
mariadb8
mysql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Mar 2013 - Jan 2017
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the documentation of the OpenStack manuals. Their commits focused on updating existing documentation, correcting configuration examples for various OpenStack services (Aodh, Ceilometer, Keystone, Glance, Nova, and Neutron), and addressing errors in the installation guides. These changes ensured the accuracy and completeness of the manuals, facilitating user understanding and correct deployment of OpenStack services. The edits include fixing typos, correcting configurations, and updating command prompts.
manualsopendevopenstack
phil-hopkins-a/openstack-networking-guide
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 4 months
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