Summary
Joshua Hawks is a Senior Full-Stack Developer based in Dallas with four years of professional software experience, currently modernizing critical web systems at the Texas School Safety Center using React, Ruby on Rails, and MySQL. He designs user-centered front ends and architects scalable back ends while leading DevOps improvements, automated QA environments, and migrations of legacy apps to modern stacks. A former music educator and longtime freelance designer/photographer, he brings a strong design sensibility and multimedia skills to UI/UX and accessibility work that often goes beyond typical engineering roles. Joshua also mentors aspiring engineers as a teaching assistant for 2U/WUSTL, conveying practical Agile, GitHub, and full-stack best practices. Always learning, he’s exploring Svelte/SvelteKit and maintains an active GitHub showcasing his full-stack JavaScript and Rails projects.
4 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Software Engineer, Fullstack Software Engineer at Flatiron School
Bachelor of Science - BS Music Teacher Education, Bachelor of Science - BS Music Teacher Education at East Texas A&M University