Derek Hawkins
Senior IT Systems Engineer at First Horizon Bank
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Hawkins is a Senior IT Systems Engineer based in Dallas with nearly a decade of hands-on web development experience building responsive, user-focused interfaces using React, Apollo, and GraphQL. He has a strong contract-background, delivering internal and customer-facing products across industries—from healthcare enrollment portals to aviation admin tools—while improving maintainability through refactors and test coverage. Comfortable in medium-sized teams, Derek bridges front-end engineering and product needs, implementing role-based access, audit logging, and configuration tooling that streamline operations. He favors modern React patterns (functional components, hooks, SCSS) and has a pragmatic “tech mercenary” approach to quickly shipping value in contract engagements. An often-overlooked strength is his healthcare-adjacent academic background, which informs his attention to usability and compliance when building consumer-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences at Illinois State University
Github Skills (22)
flask-api8
flask6
python5
bootstrap-css4
javascript3
converting3
flask-application3
pattern2
css2
factory-pattern2
factory2
testing2
bootstrap2
blueprint2
application-service2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CodingTemple/Python.Flask.Blog
May 2019 - May 2019
This is a branch-by-branch tutorial of a blog application created using Python and Flask. Theme was bought from themeforest.net
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 days
pythonflask-apiflaskblog-applicationthemeforest
derekmhawkins/js-quiz
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Simple JavaScript 5-question quiz that prompts the user to answer questions. The program will display, on the page, which questions they got right or wrong.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
javascriptanswerpromptsquestion
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