Josh Kahl
Senior Software Engineer at First Dollar
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Kahl is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience designing and modernizing high-impact web platforms that support over $600M in annual revenue. He specializes in React and TypeScript, driving frontend modularization and migrations from legacy stacks while building resilient CI/CD pipelines and API gateways. Josh has a track record of reducing technical debt through federated architectures, improving monitoring to achieve full endpoint coverage, and accelerating user acquisition via UX-driven features that boosted conversions. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, he pairs strong backend work (Kotlin, Kafka, service migrations) with a product-minded approach to security and performance. A pragmatic problem-solver, he also brings hands-on experience in regulated R&D and manufacturing environments where discipline and process matter.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (3)
android3
react3
react-native2
Github contributions (5)
cwnidog/23AndMe
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:67 commits, 27 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 months
reactproject-4react-nativeandroidweek-4
jkahl7/HackHousing_RaiseTheRoof
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
informedbuyershousing
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