Summary
Sawyer Hopkins is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, well-tested web applications and event-driven platforms from the frontend to cloud infrastructure. Based in Los Gatos, he blends hands-on engineering leadership at JobGet with entrepreneurial product work as co-owner and lead JavaScript engineer at Radiowave.io, where he architected a cross-platform progressive web app and end-to-end broadcaster tooling. His background spans React, Vue/Nuxt, Node.js serverless APIs, and multi-cloud data pipelines on AWS and Azure, plus practical experience automating headless browser workflows for web data extraction. With an MS in Physics and early research roles, he brings a quantitative, experimental mindset to complex systems design and reliability engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Michigan Technological University
Master of Science (MS) Physics, Master of Science (MS) Physics at Kansas State University
English