Justin Hawkins
Salesforce Platform Architect
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Hawkins is a Salesforce Platform Architect with 17 years of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and integrations, currently based in Reading, Pennsylvania. At Red Hat he applies deep engineering experience across distributed systems, Kubernetes, and identity tooling to bridge platform architecture with hands-on implementation. A prolific open-source contributor, he has improved flagship projects like Quarkus, Keycloak, and the fabric8 Kubernetes Java client—work that spans Kubernetes operators, RBAC and service account hardening, and robust server-side apply behavior. His background in electrical engineering underpins a systems-minded approach to reliability and performance, with notable attention to date/time, geospatial serialization, and IPv6/path handling edge cases. Colleagues value him for turning complex platform requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions that scale in production. He combines pragmatic architecture with continued deep contributions to the cloud-native ecosystem.
17 years of coding experience
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Purdue University Fort Wayne
Github Skills (41)
json10
api-rest10
kubernetes10
integrate10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
configuration-management10
data-virtualization10
websocket10
geospatial10
integrations10
java10
spatial-data10
javas10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fabric8io/kubernetes-client
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Java client for Kubernetes & OpenShift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:454 reviews, 387 commits, 336 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Justin's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the JDK client's core functionality, including sharing state in the JDK client, and addressing time-out handling for different resource calls. The code changes involved implementing new features and addressing issues related to the management and behavior of resources. The user was involved in making code updates to the codebase to better support the server-side apply operations. Additionally, changes were made to improve the robustness of the code by handling specific error cases.
mocking-kubernetesopenshift-clientmock-serverkubernetes-modeldsl
apache/olingo-odata4
Feb 2016 - Jul 2020
Mirror of Apache Olingo
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on improving the Olingo library's handling of date/time and geospatial data. They modified code related to primitive types, particularly `EdmDateTimeOffset`, `EdmTimeOfDay`, and `EdmDate`, to refine date-time behavior and accommodate different return types. Significant changes were made to support geospatial data, including adding support for polygons with multiple interior rings and adding SRID serialization. Additionally, they worked on applying changes to server-side serialization and deserialization for improved functionality.
javajavascriptolingoapache
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