JJ Kahrs
Technical Lead at Hijack Poker
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJJ Kahrs is a technical lead and seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of experience building enterprise web applications and nine years focused on game development with Unity and C#. He combines hands-on game design—having built and shipped a solo 2D bullet-hell rogue-like including code, shaders, art, audio, and performance optimizations for 1000+ entities—with enterprise-grade architecture work that has delivered multi-hundred percent performance gains. JJ has led teams from greenfield MVPs to large-scale refactors, reworking core systems, mentoring engineers, and owning full-stack deliveries across React, Java/Spring, Node, and AWS. He has entrepreneurial experience running a SaaS product for novelists and has practical DevOps and mobile app delivery experience. Currently leading technical efforts at Hijack Poker, he still retains deep low-level tooling instincts—writing messaging, execution state, and DI frameworks when needed. Based in Holly Springs, NC, JJ blends creative game craftsmanship with pragmatic, scalable engineering leadership.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Mississippi
Github Skills (31)
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rich-text9
clinical-trials9
crowd9
searchkick9
react8
annotate8
clarity8
browser8
editors8
expressjs8
text-editor7
contenteditable7
javascript7
rte7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clinwiki-org/clinwiki-notify
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Notification App for Subscribed Searches, other
Contributions:29 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
inboxsearchesnotification-servicenotification-centernotifications
jjkahrs/MultiplayerDemoUnityClient
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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