Jeffrey Hopkins

Overview

11 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Databricks, where I work on the growth team. Brought on-call pages for growth down from 22 a week to 4. Before that: PayPal and Procter & Gamble. Most at home with experimentation and TypeScript. I read too many books about cities.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2025 - Present
   Databricks · 1 yr 8 mo · Contract · San Jose, CA
   • Led or co-led 28 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
   • Sit on 6 boards.
2. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
   PayPal · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Full-Stack Engineer

   Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
   Procter & Gamble · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 4.
4. Full-Stack Engineer

   Jun 2016 - Jan 2019
   Okta · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Shipped 17 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
5. Full-Stack Engineer

   Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
   Verizon · 8 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 5.

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Education

1. Northwestern University

   BA, Electronics and Communication
   2011 - 2015