John Hopper

John Hopper is a software engineer with two decades of experience spanning low-level Linux, cloud-scale services, and complex data platforms. His work focuses on reducing hard systems to clear abstractions and rebuilding them as practical, reliable tools. Most recently, he has helped shape the graph analysis and data foundations behind modern identity security through BloodHound and DAWGS. He brings a systems perspective to infrastructure, distributed data, and operational scale, emphasizing what technology enables people to understand and accomplish. He maintains open-source projects at https://github.com/zinic.