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Hi, I’m Joshua Hawkes, a Senior Software Developer with over 10 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency fintech and cloud-native systems. I design scalable architectures for trading, payments, and data processing, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable software. I also mentor engineers, drive automation in deployment pipelines, and collaborate across product and research teams to deliver secure, regulatory-compliant solutions in banking and fintech.…Hi, I’m Joshua Hawkes, a Senior Software Developer with over 10 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency fintech and cloud-native systems. I design scalable architectures for trading, payments, and data processing, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable software. I also mentor engineers, drive automation in deployment pipelines, and collaborate across product and research teams to deliver secure, regulatory-compliant solutions in banking and fintech.

Joshua Hawkes

Cloud Developer, Architect, DevOps Developer, +3

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Hi, I’m Joshua Hawkes, a Senior Software Developer with over 10 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency fintech and cloud-native systems. I design scalable architectures for trading, payments, and data processing, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable software. I also mentor engineers, drive automation in deployment pipelines, and collaborate across product and research teams to deliver secure, regulatory-compliant solutions in banking and fintech.…Hi, I’m Joshua Hawkes, a Senior Software Developer with over 10 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency fintech and cloud-native systems. I design scalable architectures for trading, payments, and data processing, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable software. I also mentor engineers, drive automation in deployment pipelines, and collaborate across product and research teams to deliver secure, regulatory-compliant solutions in banking and fintech.

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Hi, I’m Joshua Hawkes, a Senior Software Developer with over 10 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency fintech and cloud-native systems. I design scalable architectures for trading, payments, and data processing, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable software.

I also mentor engineers, drive automation in deployment pipelines, and collaborate across product and research teams to deliver secure, regulatory-compliant solutions in banking and fintech.

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Amharic

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Javanese

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Work Experience

Senior Software Developer & Consultant at JUXT

April 1, 2025 - Present

Software consultancy for financial services and quantitative research; designed AWS infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Slurm; built Go services to distribute compute-intensive workloads across NVIDIA GPUs with a focus on low latency, security, and IP protection.

Senior Software Developer at NatWest Cushon

October 1, 2023 - April 1, 2025

Designed and deployed cloud-native microservices for trade aggregation, multi-custodian fund transactions, and six-decimal financial calculations. Architected and optimized a distributed financial database in Go with MySQL; developed REST APIs and event-driven real-time processing; implemented CI/CD and FCA-compliant cloud integration; developed AI chatbot solutions in Python.

Software Developer at Bet365

April 1, 2022 - June 1, 2023

Developed and migrated global payment processing systems from C# monoliths to Go microservices, improving performance and maintainability with SQL Server and caching; processed 100K+ transactions per minute using distributed caching and Kafka; Python automation and mentoring.

Software Developer at Dot Origin

April 1, 2018 - April 1, 2022

Security & Identity Solutions – Smart Cards, PKI, NFC, RFID; designed secure banking and identity verification, including a smartcard reader capable of reading Google Pay & Apple Wallet passes; built Google Pay/Apple Wallet Pass issuing platform and REST APIs in PHP Laravel & MySQL; door-entry platform integration.

Software Developer Apprentice at Dot Origin

April 1, 2016 - April 1, 2018

Led cloud migration of a smartcard authentication system using Python and C++, implementing CCID protocols for secure transactions; created interactive floorplans in JavaScript.