Heath Hopkins

Building software and data platforms for cancer research

Product manager, software architect, and application developer with 26 years of experience delivering web and mobile products. Since 2014 I've built research technology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University: cloud-native platforms, data engineering for healthcare and genomics data, and workflow automation for regulated, high-stakes environments.

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What I Do

Twenty-six years of turning complex problems into working systems, from cloud infrastructure to pixel-perfect interfaces.

Web & Mobile App Development

Building modern web and mobile applications with TypeScript, React, and robust backend systems in C# and Node.js.

Cloud Architecture

Designing and implementing scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS and Azure with infrastructure as code.

Data Engineering

Building efficient data lakes and designing ETL pipelines, with specialized expertise in healthcare and genomics data processing.

Automation & Workflows

Designing and implementing intelligent bots and automated workflows that streamline operations, reduce manual overhead, and accelerate delivery.

Technical Leadership

Leading engineering projects and teams, mentoring developers, and driving technical strategy and architecture decisions.

AI & LLM Integration

Building AI into real products: LLM-powered agents, generative image pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows.

Technologies & Skills

The tools I reach for when building systems that scale.

TypeScript

React

TanStack Start

Next.js

React Router / Remix

Tailwind CSS

shadcn/ui

Node.js

AWS

Vercel

Trigger.dev

Azure

Docker

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

MySQL

Oracle

AWS Redshift

AWS Glue

AWS Athena

DuckDB

Drizzle

Prisma

GraphQL

Pulumi

Terraform

Experience Highlights

A few projects I'm particularly proud of.

Custom, automated research information management system

Built a platform that tracks researcher performance and automatically discovers and catalogs grants, publications, patents, and memberships, replacing manual curation. Probabilistic entity matching links publications to the right researchers, even when authors share names or publish under variations of their own.

Unified healthcare data warehouse

Designed a warehouse that brings patient records, clinical trials, tissue samples, genomics, and medically-coded data into one analytical platform researchers can actually query.

Cut infrastructure costs 75% with an AWS migration

Moved a medical research center's entire data center to AWS, eliminating hardware constraints and unlocking effectively unlimited storage for rapidly growing medical and genomics data.

Clinical note de-identification pipeline

Built a pipeline that removes protected health information from clinical notes, replacing each item with a placeholder for its type, such as [name] or [phone number]. Each patient's dates all shift by the same amount, so the time between their events stays intact.

WinshipMD physician referral app

Built WinshipMD for web, iOS, and Android so Georgia physicians can find and connect with Winship Cancer Institute physicians for patient questions and referrals. Anyone can filter Winship physicians by location and specialty and search open clinical trials.

HIPAA-compliant help desk

Built a ticketing system that handles sensitive healthcare information securely without slowing the support team down.

Clinical trial mobile apps

Shipped iOS and Android apps for specific clinical trials and medical interventions, enabling real-time data collection and patient engagement.

Auburn University's first mobile app

Built Auburn's first official mobile app, bringing campus services to students' phones in the early days of the App Store.

Live campus transit map

Created an interactive campus map for Auburn University overlaying real-time bus locations: live transit tracking before it was a standard feature anywhere.

Let's Connect

I'm open to consulting engagements and interesting roles, whether that's building web and mobile apps, healthcare data platforms, or AI-powered features. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn.

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