Julian Hinsch

New Haven, CT - jhinsch799@gmail.com - (609) 721-2326
julianhinsch.github.io / github.com/JulianHinsch

Seeking full-stack engineering role. Production level experience with RESTful APIs and all common front-end frameworks.

Experience

Basebuild: Software Engineer Mar 2023 - Present

5th engineering hire at a seed stage construction project management startup.

• Build out financial features in core product to gain feature parity with competitors
• Improve code review process, instill best practices from prior experience
• Explore and research text-to-sql for data analytics using python and ChatGPT

Lithic (Formerly known as Privacy.com): Software Engineer I & II Sep 2019 - Aug 2022

Worked on the Privacy product team (B2C), responsible for external/internal web clients, React Native mobile app, chrome extension, and Node APIs.

• Helped migrate all front end code from AngularJS/Grunt to Vue/Typescript/Webpack, reducing potential for bugs, improving readability, and making it easier to hire new engineers.
• Led project enabling existing customers to reissue expiring cards, which retained customer spend volume when Privacy was forced to close a large number of cards.
• Wrote tech specs, interviewed and onboarded new hires, mentored junior engineer.

The Recurse Center: Recurser
May 2019 - Aug 2019

Attended 3-month programming retreat in Brooklyn, NY.

• Studied user authentication in depth including common attacks, implemented a full-stack demonstration of stateless JWT authentication from scratch using Node, Reach, Redux.
• Practiced SVG manipulation by creating an interactive world inequality map.
• Familiarized myself with Django, designed and implemented a customizable restaurant menu.

VSEEN: Developer & Lead Developer
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019

Contributed to a variety of client software projects in collaboration with creative staff at a growing marketing and design agency.

• Developed a user analytics platform for ETF Global with MySQL, PHP Laravel, and Angular V, RxJS and Material UI
• Redeveloped the front end of a multilingual help and support site for McKinsey & Company.
• Build a touch screen interactive cancer research timeline for GCI Health.

Technical Skills

Languages: Javascript, Python, HTML/CSS, C++
Frameworks: Vue, Angular, React, React Native, Redux, Express, Django
Databases: Mongo, Postgres, SQLite
Other: Webpack, Docker, Jenkins, Github Actions

Education

New York University, College of Arts & Sciences
May 2017

Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Studies. Minor, Web Programming and Applications