Adam Hopkins

Founder & CTO. AI-native platforms.
Python developer. Open Source OSS contributor. Sanic Core Maintainer.
Husband. Father. Son. Brother.
A proud and happy man.

Book Python Web Development with Sanic — available from Packt

adam.py

class Adam:
    work = StackYak("CTO & Co-founder")
    oss = Sanic("Core Maintainer")
    home = Israel("Negev")

    async def run(self, *inputs: Pretzels | Coffee) -> None:
        while True:
            await self.work.do(inputs)
            await self.oss.do(inputs)

    def sleep(self):
        raise NotImplementedError

>>> adam = Adam()
>>> await adam.run(Coffee())
[stackyak] shipping inference stacks…
[sanic] reviewing pull requests…
>>> adam.sleep()
Traceback (most recent call last):
NotImplementedError
>>> 

What I've Done

Where I am now, and where I've been

now 2026–present

Co-Founder & CTO StackYak
Private AI inference stacks on dedicated GPU infrastructure
now Jan 1999 – present

Principal Consultant Etz Lime · Self-employed
Advisory & full-stack engineering across languages and stacks
2025–2026

CTO PacketFabric
Platform architecture & AI-readiness advisory
2024–2025

Head of Data Modernization Lumen Technologies
AI-ready data architecture & governance for a Fortune 500 company
2020–2024

VP of Software Engineering PacketFabric
Scaled software engineering to 30+ across distributed systems
2017–2020

Principal Software Engineer Matrix Retail
ML-driven predictive analytics & platform architecture
2015–2017

Co-Founder & CTO Optymizer Solutions
Real-time fraud detection with ML
Through 2014

Legal career Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar

What I've Built

Open source across the Sanic ecosystem and beyond

Building now

StackYak

Private AI inference stacks on dedicated GPU infrastructure

stackyak.ai

I maintain the Sanic web framework as a Core Maintainer and Steering Council Chair, and ship a handful of related libraries and experiments in Python, Go, and Rust.

sanic-org/sanic

Accelerate your web app development | Build fast. Run fast.

Python 19K 1.6K

sanic-org/sanic-ext

Extended Sanic functionality

Python 66 47

ahopkins/sanic-jwt

Authentication, JWT, and permission scoping for Sanic

Python 246 51

ahopkins/sanic-session

Provides server-backed sessions for Sanic using Redis, Memcache and more.

Python 162 55

ahopkins/mayim

The *NOT* ORM hydrator

Python 118 10

ahopkins/merkava

A fast ordered NoSQL database.

Rust 7 0

See it all on GitHub

What I've Said

Keynotes, conference talks, and podcast guest appearances

I've keynoted and spoken at Python and engineering conferences across the globe — PyCon IL, EuroPython, PyWebConf, PyGeekle, and others — and joined a handful of podcasts along the way. Talks usually center on async Python, scalable APIs, data platform architecture, and the developer experience of building and maintaining open source.

If you're organizing a conference, podcast, or internal tech talk and think I'd be a good fit, get in touch.

Adam Hopkins

What I've Done

What I've Built

What I've Said

Closing Keynote · PyCon IL 2023