Josh Hawkins
Software Engineer at BTI360
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Hawkins is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance web, desktop, and serverless applications, currently serving as an ETL SME and development lead in Washington, D.C. His background spans full-stack React architectures, embedded CPython extensions in C/C++, and high-throughput Python/Ruby serverless ETL systems in AWS. He blends hands-on implementation with DevOps instincts—rewriting and deploying a Hubot GroupMe "@all" bot with Heroku optimizations demonstrates his attention to both backend logic and operational reliability. Passionate about compilers and open source, he brings a systems-minded approach to bridging legacy desktop software with modern web and native interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University
English, German, asl
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Github Skills (17)
hubot10
javascript10
nodejs10
apidoc9
heroku9
api9
automations8
automation8
automation-testing8
react-dates6
react6
iphone-x6
iphone6
io6
github6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
hawkins/groupme-at-all
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
A Hubot chat bot to mention every user in a GroupMe channel all at once.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on developing a Hubot chatbot for GroupMe, enabling the "@all" mention functionality. Their contributions include implementing message forwarding, adding a blacklist configuration to filter users, and rewriting the bot in JavaScript. They also integrated Heroku-specific code to prevent the bot from sleeping. This demonstrates a focus on both back-end logic and deployment/infrastructure considerations.
chatbothubotgroupmehubot-groupmeheroku
hawkins/unendlicher-turm
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 3 pushes, 4 issues in 6 months
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