Chris Hopkins
Director Of Data Engineering
City of Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hopkins is a Director of Data Engineering with nearly 15 years of software and data engineering experience and a proven track record of migrating on-prem systems to scalable AWS SaaS/PaaS architectures. He has led cross-functional, distributed teams—many based in India—delivering large-scale ELT pipelines (including a Snowflake process handling 30+ billion annual time-series records) and consolidating sprawling application suites to reduce runtime and costs. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, Chris has driven multi-million-dollar cost optimizations, rewrote legacy systems for maintainability, and standardized BI platforms across organizations. He combines hands-on engineering (Python, Snowflake, Redshift, S3) with strong operational instincts and a mentorship-first approach that he pays forward to his teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at State University of New York Empire State College
Github Skills (22)
python-requests9
webextension8
react-jsonschema-form8
react8
http8
browser-extension7
ui-components7
safari7
python7
chrome6
cli6
firefox6
nodejs6
javascript6
angular5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liquid-state/pip-client
Jun 2018 - May 2024
A client library for Liquid State Private Information Providers (PIP)
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 39 pushes in 6 years
client-libraryliquidproviderspip
liquid-state/pathways-client
Mar 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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