Derek Hopper

Hi, I'm Derek Hopper, Lead Engineer at Tula Software and Ideal Project Group. We build Rails apps.

Derek Hopper is the Lead Engineer at Tula Software and Ideal Project Group. At Tula Software, Derek Hopper helps the team build the world's best yoga management software for independent yoga studios. Derek Hopper and the team offer consulting for Ruby on Rails projects. They also work with Backbone.js, a common frontend JavaScript framework, and Twitter Bootstrap, a grid system for your web pages.

Software Developer at Ideal Project Group, LLC

November 2011 - Present | Chicago, IL

Lead Developer at Toutapp, Inc.

June 2011 - October 2011 | Mountain View, CA

Systems Engineer at OnStar

June 2010 - June 2011 | Detroit, MI

I worked on a team to develop, test, and ship a prototype demonstration vehicle to CES 2011. You can see an article, photos, and a video about the project: http://tinyurl.com/2chc5d2.

Intern at OnStar

May 2009 - August 2009 | Detroit, MI

Quality Engineering Intern at OnStar

May 2008 - August 2008 | Detroit, MI

Purdue University

2006 – 2010

B.S.

Concentration: Computer Engineering

Indie games, Reddit, sports talk, frugalism, marketing, sales