Joel Hawksley
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Louisville, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Hawksley is a staff software engineer and pragmatic technical leader with 11 years of experience building scalable UI and Rails systems from Louisville, Colorado. At GitHub he invented and led ViewComponent, driving adoption across nearly all user-facing pages and serving as company-wide UI architect shaping cross-org strategy and metrics. Joel blends hands-on engineering—contributing to Rails, RuboCop, and Primer ViewComponents—with mentorship, sponsoring a dozen+ promotions and guiding six teams through annual vision and quarterly plans. He pairs a visual communications background with practical product instincts, having founded SoloFolio and built resilient digital display applications for e-paper and IoT. His open-source work includes deep improvements to Rails’ rendering and testing surfaces, reflecting both front-end polish and back-end rigor.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Visual Communications, Photojournalism, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Visual Communications, Photojournalism at Ohio University
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Github Skills (24)
rubocop10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
component-design10
rubygems10
testing10
css10
app-framework10
rails10
ruby10
gemspec10
gemfile10
viewcomponent10
html10
minitest10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ViewComponent/view_component
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:127 releases, 857 reviews, 1242 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the core functionality and testing of the `view_component/view_component` repository. They focused on adding and modifying test helpers, ensuring test coverage, and refactoring existing code. Key contributions include extracting test helpers for reusability, implementing tests to ensure features work correctly in various environments, and adding new tests for specific template behavior and component conventions. They also made changes to ensure testing for edge cases.
ruby-on-railsviewcomponent
github/rubocop-github
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Code style checking for GitHub's Ruby projects
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to enhancing the `rubocop-github` project, which focuses on Ruby code style checks. Their work involved adding support for more complex rendering scenarios within Rails controller and view contexts, including components and instance-based rendering. They implemented new features to handle various render types, including those with collections and content, while simultaneously writing and updating tests to ensure correct functionality. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the linter's accuracy and flexibility regarding Rails rendering practices.
rubyrubocopgem
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