Kai Hirota
Software Engineer at Stake
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Hirota is a backend software engineer with eight years’ experience designing and shipping distributed, data-intensive systems across fintech and web3 companies. Currently at Stake after two impactful years at Immutable, he has blended pragmatic engineering—DB REST APIs, client-side caching, container CI/CD—with domain experience in machine-learning-backed infrastructure from Fracta and data analysis at Airbnb. Kai’s background spans cloud-native deployments, performance optimization (notably cutting SQL and page-load bottlenecks), and building real-time integrations in both game-engine and production services. He holds graduate-level computer science credentials from ANU and the University of Sydney and brings a habit of incrementally modernizing legacy systems into scalable, testable architectures.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityNanodegree, Data Engineering, Nanodegree, Data Engineering at UdacityA.S., Dual degree in Business Administration & Economics, 3.6 GPA, A.S., Dual degree in Business Administration & Economics, 3.6 GPA at Foothill CollegeInternational Baccalaureate (Withdrawn), International Baccalaureate (Withdrawn) at St. Mary's International SchoolThe University of SydneyBachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems & Analytics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems & Analytics at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (64)
umbrella10
code-coverage10
sarif9
coverage9
codecov9
blockchain9
ethereum-contract9
api8
sdk8
typescript8
contract8
testing7
solidity7
inheritance7
sigmajs7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
from81/FastAPI-Based-RestAPI
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:97 pushes, 10 branches in 11 days
kaihirota/ANU-Programs-and-Courses-Graph-Explorer
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:174 commits, 81 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
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