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Me. On a freezing cold day in Central Park.

I'm Josh Hinkle. I live in San Francisco with my dog Daisy and my computer.

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ABOUT ME

👋 I'm a Bay Area software engineer, with an academic background in chemical engineering and computer science. My interests include all-things programming, math, science, rockets and heat shields, chess, and Zelda. Currently a software engineer @ SoFi. Before that I was at NASA Ames Research Center, building software applications to assist in the research and testing of thermoprotective materials for spacecraft reentry.

SKILLS

Languages Tools Professional
Java Spring Team Leadership
Kotlin AWS Mentorship
Python Terraform Cross-Team Collaboration
SQL Kubernetes Prototyping
JS Temporal Documentation

EXPERIENCE

SoFi

Senior Software Engineer

March 2019 - Present

San Francisco, CA

  • Team lead and senior backend engineer on the SoFi Money team
  • Lead engineer for large user-facing projects such as Samsung Money by SoFi and Personal Loan - Money Bundle.
  • Designed and implemented org-wide data pipeline core infrastructure utilzing AWS Kinesis, S3, Snowflake, and others.
  • Designed and built the entire resilient Webhooks API with which SoFi communicates with Samsung, currently having sent > 30M messages with 0 dropped.
  • Check out my feature in a blog post.

Software Engineer

March 2019 - September 2020

  • Joined SoFi Time To Fund Team, with primary task to increase end-to-end automation of loan approval and funding processes.
  • Worked in diverse tech stack primarily consisting of Java and Kotlin backend micro-services
  • Regular interaction with legacy apps using scala, jquery, and other randoms.

OTC EXCHANGE NETWORK

Software Engineer

June - December 2018

San Francisco, CA

  • OTC Exchange Network (“OTCXN”) is a capital markets infrastructure company using proprietary blockchain technology.
  • Full stack development with Java micro-service backend and React.js frontend

NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER - AMA

Software Engineering Intern

January 2018-May 2018

Mountain View, CA

  • Consult with departments within Analytical Mechanics Associates at NASA to provide both local and online software solutions.
  • Use Java, VB, Microsoft SQL to code CRUD application solutions to assist in the research of thermo-protective materials to be used in NASA reentry vehicles.

NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER

Software Engineering Intern

January-September, 2017

Mountain View, CA

  • Designed and developed relational database application for documenting the decomposition products of aerospace materials being tested under atmospheric reentry conditions.
  • Custom UI design built with JavaScript, CSS and HTML enabled NASA engineers with no DB training to customize their own queries, generating reports and data visualizations on demand.
  • Utilized this software in an investigation on decomposition products associated with aerospace materials being tested on-site.
  • Presented to NASA administrative staff software capabilities and results of the investigation.
  • Check out a PDF of mx`x y poster presentation HERE.

PROJECTS

WOMENCOLLEGETECH.COM

  • Collaboration with NASA engineer coworker whom is involved with the Society of Women Engineers leadership.
  • Designed and developed social network website designed to aggregate engineering talent from all-women colleges in effort to enhance these college’s representation in Silicon Valley technology industry.
  • Built atop WordPress CMS and required custom PHP plug-ins to achieve separate client and talent profile functionality.

“THE GREAT CATSBY’S DECENT ADVENTURE”

  • Arcade style video game programmed in Java using libGDX framework.
  • Features 100% original code, artwork, animations, and music.
  • Watch my presentation HERE and view the source code HERE.

ROBOTICS COMPETITION

  • Lead programmer on team for Robotic Systems engineering challenge.
  • All robot logic, AI, movement, and sensory analysis programmed in C.
  • Team had the most successful robot in three of four categories.

EDUCATION

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
Minor in Computer Science

  • 3.98 Overall SJSU GPA
  • 4.00 CS GPA

HONORS AND AWARDS

NASA ASAP Award

  • Checkout my award letter HERE

NorCal AICHE Senior of the Year

  • Awarded to top performing Senior by Northern California Chapter of American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Outstanding Senior Award

  • Awarded to top performing Senior in BCME department for academic year

Outstanding Junior Award

  • Awarded to top performing Junior in department for academic year

Promise Award

  • Awarded to top performing lower-classman (Sophmore or Freshman) in BCME department for academic year

Dean's Scholar

  • Awarded to Students with 2 or more consecutive semesters of a GPA >= 3.7

President's Scholar

  • Awarded to Students with 2 or more consecutive semesters of a GPA == 4.00

LEADERSHIP

RECYCLING WATER ON MARS

  • Leader of 6 person team performing trade study on new process for water reuse on manned Martian mission.
  • Collaboration with Michael Flynn and NASA Ames Research Center
  • Leadership duties include scheduling meetings and interfacing with client, securing funding, and delegating tasks amongst team members.
  • Checkout a PDF of the poster presentation HERE.


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