Juho Hautala
Staff Software Engineer at Kick.AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuho Hautala is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and leading engineering efforts across startups and consultancies. He co-founded Kick.AI and has held senior technical and leadership roles at Kodan, Vincit, and Token Terminal, blending hands-on implementation with product- and team-level impact. Known for making "the waves for you to surf on," he excels at creating developer-friendly platforms and pragmatic architectures that accelerate teams. Currently at Cisco, he brings a founder’s mindset to large-scale engineering challenges and a track record of shipping across the stack in both early-stage and enterprise contexts. An atypical detail: his background spans production planning to startup exits, showing an ability to translate operational constraints into robust software solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Helsinki
English, Swedish, Finnish
Github Skills (80)
validity10
verify10
hcaptcha10
facebook9
testing8
middleware7
javascript7
formatter7
python7
nodejs7
npm7
packaging7
async-await6
highlighting6
client-server6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vastus/provis
Jan 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
vastus/express-hcaptcha
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
A light middleware for Express.js to verify an hCaptcha token
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
lightnode-jstokenexpresshcaptcha
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