Dan Hopkins
CTO / VP Engineering · Ex-Splunk · Founding-era VictorOps · Security & Dev Tools
Boulder, Colorado
Summary
Three engineering orgs, three different stages. Joined VictorOps as a founding-era engineer and took ARR from $0 → $10M through the Splunk acquisition, then stayed at Splunk to grow on-call from $10M → $20M and lead within a 350-person engineering team. Most recently led StackHawk from $1M → $5M ARR with a small 10-person team, landing Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and ITV.
I build small teams that out-ship larger ones. At StackHawk we roughly doubled engineering output (~500 → ~1,000 PRs/quarter, same headcount) by standardizing on Claude Code and rebuilding the SDLC around it. One of the earliest serious bets on AI-native engineering I've seen in production.
Experience
VP of Engineering
StackHawk
Oct 2022 – May 2026
Grew ARR $1M → $5M with a 10-person team. Landed F500 customers (Coca-Cola, McDonald's, ITV) and pioneered AI-first engineering.
Director, Engineering
Splunk
Jun 2018 – Oct 2022
Owned Splunk On-Call: $10M → $20M ARR, 1,000+ customers. Architected Incident Intelligence and led acquisition integration.
VP of Engineering
VictorOps
Mar 2013 – Jun 2018
Founding-era engineer who built the software, built the team, and built the business. Took ARR $0 → $10M and led the technical due diligence for the 2018 acquisition by Splunk.
- Sr. Software Engineer: Only experienced Scala engineer on a senior Java team. Built the chat platform and distributed broadcasting system that powered incident notification at scale.
- Technical Lead, Platform: Partnered with the CTO to set the platform's technical direction during the highest-growth phase.
- VP of Engineering: Hired and mentored the leadership bench, led the technical due diligence for the Splunk acquisition, and kept shipping product features hands-on.
Technical Lead, User Acquisition
LivingSocial
May 2011 – Mar 2013
Led 7 engineers building Scala services and Ruby web for 100M+ subscribers. Owned user acquisition.
Enterprise Content Management Architect
Zia Consulting
Dec 2007 – May 2011
Architect and tech lead for Java and Flex applications on the Alfresco CMS platform.
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