Joshua Hawkins is an Executive Director and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building responsive desktop and web applications, currently leading engineering efforts at JPMorgan Chase in New York. He combines a strong foundation in functional programming and service-oriented design with hands-on expertise in UI/UX for large and streaming datasets, demonstrated by front-end contributions to the popular finos/perspective visualization project. Joshua has a track record of delivering real-time financial systems—from greenfield equity derivatives platforms to market-pricing visualization tools—and runs his own consultancy, Func Brains, producing well-tested, extensible code for startups. With dual degrees in mathematics and fine arts, he brings both analytical rigor and a designer’s eye to architecture and product-facing features, often optimizing build/release and data workflows behind the scenes.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Texas State University-San Marcos
A data visualization and analytics component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:32 commits, 15 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Joshua's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Perspective component. They added methods to clear and replace data within the Perspective table and viewer components. Furthermore, the user implemented an XY Line chart, which required modifications to the underlying charting configurations and data handling. They also added support for scatter bubble click on highcharts and addressed issues related to filter and pivot functionality.
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Joshua Hawkins - Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.