Summary
Jamie Kichuk is a Full Stack Developer with nine years of experience who transitioned from a BA in Theatre to building resilient web and API systems, blending creative product sense with engineering rigor. Skilled in JavaScript, React/Redux, Node.js, Python and PostgreSQL, Jamie has designed production APIs (FastAPI) and front-end portals that supported crypto-to-fiat flows across 190 countries and integrations with partners like Circle and Mastercard. They champion test-driven development and automation—maintaining >90% API test coverage and automating docs generation in CI/CD—to keep complex integrations stable. A former actor and entrepreneur (self-built tutoring business), Jamie brings strong empathy, communication, and curriculum-design instincts to collaborative engineering and UX-focused product work. Their ideal projects pair technical challenge with creative impact, reflecting a habit of “reinventing the wheel” to deeply understand systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Theatre/Theater, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Theatre/Theater at University of Southern California
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy