Thomas Hawkins
Lead Software Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Hawkins is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack systems across Health Tech and Sports Betting, now leading engineering at DraftKings from Toronto. He combines a mechatronics engineering background with a formal full-stack web development certificate, giving him a practical edge in automation, hardware-integrated software, and production-grade backend/frontend work. Past roles include developing highly automated test platforms and robotics integrations at Celestica and delivering full-stack products at Sports IQ Analytics and Think Research, showing a track record of turning complex physical systems and regulated domains into reliable software. Known for reducing operator error through automation and precise machine-vision solutions, he brings a detail-oriented, data-driven approach to scaling consumer-facing services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Mechatronics Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's of Mechatronics Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at McMaster UniversityCertificate in Full-Stack Web Development, Computer Science, Certificate in Full-Stack Web Development, Computer Science at York University
Github Skills (4)
expressapp6
json-database4
react2
webpack2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HawkinsThomas/ExpressApp
May 2019 - Jul 2019
This is a website that I'm working on to learn to write express apps. It has a mock JSON database of products and users. Users can register and login. Once logged in they will be granted a session token to view restricted pages.
Contributions:32 commits, 10 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 month
expressappjson-database
HawkinsThomas/GIF_ME
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:74 commits, 47 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
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