Jamie Kawahara
Senior Software Engineer at Ontra
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolJamie Kawahara is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining full-stack web applications, currently shaping product and engineering at Ontra from Honolulu. Skilled in Ruby on Rails and Ember.js, Jamie has delivered RESTful APIs and front-end features for legal-tech and event analytics platforms, bringing a pragmatic focus on well-designed, well-tested code. A Turing School-trained developer with a biology degree from UC Berkeley, Jamie blends scientific rigor with software craftsmanship and a knack for clear system design. Before software, Jamie founded a niche glass bead company and apprenticed in glass arts, an entrepreneurial and hands-on background that surfaces in meticulous attention to product detail. Known for steady, full-stack contributions across teams, Jamie thrives on turning complex requirements into reliable, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Integrative Biology, 3.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Integrative Biology, 3.3 at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, 4.4, High School, 4.4 at Foothill High SchoolFull Stack Web Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Full Stack Web Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript at Turing School of Software & Design
English, French
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Github Skills (20)
mls10
inventory-management10
inventory-management-system10
rails9
statistics9
open-source8
minitest6
nodejs6
github-pages6
jquery6
ruby6
javascript6
software-design5
kotlin3
bitcoin3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
androidgrl/real-time
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:80 PRs, 51 pushes, 77 branches in 9 days
realtimereactwebsocketssocket-iowebsocket
androidgrl/turing-world-of-things
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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