Joshua Jenkins
Backend Developer at Drund
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Jenkins is a backend developer based in Long Beach, CA with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable APIs and services, currently specializing in Django and Django REST Framework. He has a strong practical background across full-stack technologies—having worked with Angular, React, Node.js, C#, and SQL in AGILE environments—and focuses on optimizing models, viewsets, and CRUD operations for performance and scalability. Joshua contributes to open-source financial tooling, notably enhancing backend functionality and fractional trading support in a Robinhood API wrapper, demonstrating attention to API design and documentation. Comfortable in both research and operational settings (from Caltech systems work to Navy tech centers), he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to production systems and team collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A at William S Hart High SchoolCal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (5)
api10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
rest-api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jmfernandes/robin_stocks
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
This is a library to use with Robinhood Financial App. It currently supports trading crypto-currencies, options, and stocks. In addition, it can be used to get real time ticker information, assess the performance of your portfolio, and can also get tax documents, total dividends paid, and more. More info at
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 453 commits, 79 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily worked on building and maintaining the back-end functionality of the Robinhood API wrapper library, making substantial contributions to the core code. They refactored existing code by changing class names, names, and functions names. They added features like adding download functions, new functions for profile information, and order management. The user also updated the documentation and added functionality for fractional trading.
currenciesmore-infodividendscrypto-currenciesstock
townsenddw/discrete-graphic-traffic
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:79 commits in 23 days
raycalpolyslotraffic
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