Adam Kahtava
Software Engineer at Workiva
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Kahtava is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable web applications and foundational APIs across startups and enterprise environments. Currently contributing to application-level encryption and data storage at Workiva, he has a strong background in Ruby on Rails, React, Node, and backend systems from roles at Lexikal Media, ZER0, Nerdy, and the Canadian Red Cross. He excels at collaborating across cross-functional teams, on-call rotations, and shipping production-grade features like payment integrations and governance-focused collaboration tooling. A lifelong builder—first code in elementary school and self-funded early hardware—he pairs curiosity with a disciplined approach honed by long-distance running at the national level. Based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, he brings both product-minded engineering and an unusual blend of endurance athletics and meticulous, LEGO-style problem solving to complex technical challenges.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Trent UniversityComputer Programming and Analysis, Computer Programming and Analysis at Seneca Polytechnic
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Github Skills (15)
ajax6
unit-testing6
asp-net6
zos6
javascript6
rhino-mocks6
continuous-integration6
nant6
digital-signature6
ruby-application3
react3
statamic3
ruby2
full-stack2
rails2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ExplorusDataSolutions/WaterEnvironmentalHub-WEHUB
Jan 2011 - Feb 2013
Contributions:910 commits in 2 years
zer0-os/zOS-component-library
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
Component Library for zOS
Contributions:4 reviews, 24 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year
vuecomponent-libraryzos
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