Stephen Hopkins is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with Cyber Justice League and a Senior Systems Engineer with Computer Help. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of West Florida where he teaches courses in Cybersecurity and Secure Software Development. Stephen started a cybersecurity business in 1997. Computer Help has been running strong since then and within the past couple of years expanded to a second company, Cyber Justice League. The two companies work together to provide cybersecurity engineering, engineering consulting, cloud services integration, and technical services.

Stephen began his education as a student in the second class of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM), a leading high school in the United States. After completing an Electrical Engineering degree and serving on the Cadet Wing Staff at the United States Air Force Academy, Stephen served as a Computer Systems Engineer and Lead of the Guidance Systems Branch for the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). Stephen completed a MS in Systems and Control Engineering, transitioned to an AF Reserve position, and joined a DoD consulting company as a Systems Engineer. Stephen has a MS in Cybersecurity.

He serves as the Chair of the Northwest Florida Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and as the 2023 Chair of the Hardware Robotics and Software Programming Competitions. Stephen performs research in several areas including Secure SCADA Frameworks, passive detection of O/S and IoT, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), robotics, and increasing the resilience of the electric grid using state estimation techniques and smart grid integration.

His leisure activities include competitive powerlifting, competitive archery, competitive cycling, and SCUBA diving.