Thomas Hopkins
Principal Software Engineer at RVO Health
Greater Asheville United States
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Top SchoolThomas Hopkins is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native systems and developer platforms, specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, networking, and cost-conscious architecture. He combines deep practical expertise in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Terraform, and CI/CD to lead migrations and platform projects that measurably reduce spend and improve security—most recently architecting an AWS/Kubernetes migration that saved nearly $2M annually. A trusted technical consultant and builder, he has driven API gateway and secret storage implementations and institutionalized security practices across organizations. Thomas excels at accelerating other teams through tooling and platform work, and he pairs that with mentoring and role-definition efforts for senior engineers. Based in Greater Asheville, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset informed by a non-traditional BA background in anthropology, which helps him navigate cross-team dynamics and translate business needs into technical outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts Anthropology at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Github Skills (100)
github10
terraform10
disaster-recovery10
backup10
migrate10
volumes10
hashicorp10
persistent-volumes10
graph10
persistent10
stem10
github-issues10
velero10
aws10
terraform-cloud9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RedVentures/node-rabbit-wrap
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
A wrapper for node.amqp
Contributions:195 commits in 10 months
nodejsamqp
hopkinsth/cw-search
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 22 commits, 18 pushes in 3 months
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