Joshua Hawks

Senior full-stack developer at the Texas School Safety Center, based in Dallas. I mostly work in Ruby on Rails and React, with some Svelte and Node on the side.

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Experience

2024 — Now

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Texas School Safety Center

Building a communications app as the sole developer, end to end.
Build and maintain the Center's internal and public web apps.
Moving older apps over to Rails and React.
Manage the production and QA servers and deployments.

2022 — 2024

Full-Stack Developer

Texas School Safety Center

Worked on the Emergency Operations Plan review app (Rails, React, Sidekiq, Redis), launched in 2023.
Built a Rails API used for event registration, site search, and two state registries.
Set up QA environments for our apps, automated with Ansible.

2022 — 2023

Teaching Assistant

Washington University Coding Bootcamp

Helped students through a 25-week MERN bootcamp: projects, Git, and planning.

Side projects

Bassoon Guru

A practice companion for bassoonists to work on fundamentals and keep track of repertoire.

React · Ruby on Rails · PostgreSQL

Code

Thunder Kitties Website

A simple site for a Dallas softball club, with team info and league details.

Next.js · Tailwind CSS

Live site Code

Escapade

A MERN travel app for planning South American trips and saving itineraries.

React · Node · Express · MongoDB

Code

Vendor Management System

An internal tool for an arts organization to manage vendors, onboarding, and reporting.

React · Ruby on Rails · PostgreSQL · Tailwind CSS

Code

Texas Bassoon Center

A landing page for a boutique bassoon shop in Texas, built with SvelteKit.

Svelte · SvelteKit · Tailwind CSS

Live site Code

Weather-All

A small weather app using OpenWeather to show current conditions for U.S. cities.

HTML · Bootstrap · JavaScript

Live site Code

About

I was a band director before I moved into software in 2022.

I still play oboe and bassoon as a freelance musician, do a little design, and get outdoors when I can.

Usually with: Ruby on Rails, React, SvelteKit, Next.js, Node, PostgreSQL / MySQL, Tailwind
Also: Sidekiq & Redis, Ansible, NGINX, RHEL, Git, Adobe CC
Education: B.S., Texas A&M University–Commerce