Paul Hopkins
Co-Founder at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Test Valley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hopkins is a seasoned cloud-native engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience, currently co-founding Newsoft Sage to cut cloud carbon footprints using AI. As an AWS Authorized Instructor and multiple-certified practitioner, he combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS, IoT, Kubernetes, Docker and microservices with a strong background in Java and embedded/mobile platforms. He has driven architecture and delivery at companies from British Gas to Arthur D. Little, and taught Java and agile practices to development teams for over a decade. Paul’s career blends technical delivery, training and process improvement—he’s equally comfortable designing EKS deployments as mentoring offshore teams in Agile and TDD. He brings a practical systems-thinking approach to sustainability, applying IoT and AI to make cloud infrastructure measurably greener. Based in Test Valley, England, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with an instructor’s talent for translating complex cloud topics into actionable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Studies, BSc Computer Studies at Solent UniversityPerins Community School
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes9
charts9
helm9
docker-desktop8
aws8
packer7
cloud-infrastructure6
typescript6
command-line-interface6
infrastructure-as-code5
aws-iot5
go5
cloud-development-kit5
amazon-web-services5
minikube4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paulhopkins11/template-microservice
Jun 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
paulhopkins11/microservices-library
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
A simple library application written using microservices
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 6 years 6 months
microservices
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