Kai Hotz
Lead Engineer - Frontend at Inception
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolKai Hotz is a Lead Frontend Engineer based in Dubai with over 15 years of web development experience and a nine-year track record in senior and lead roles. He specialises in React and TypeScript, designing scalable frontend architectures and reusable component libraries that have repeatedly reduced load times and accelerated feature delivery across fintech, cybersecurity, and enterprise projects. Kai has led and mentored teams of up to a dozen engineers, driving code quality through strict linting standards, CI/CD hygiene, and hands-on pair programming that measurably improved delivery speed and maintainability. He’s delivered high-availability products (99.9% uptime) and mobile apps serving tens of thousands of monthly active users while cutting build times and startup latency dramatically. Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, design and backend teams, he blends pragmatic engineering with UI/UX sensibility to ship on-schedule, user-focused releases. An early-career background in operations and aviation gives him a practical, process-oriented mindset that complements his technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering at Universidad Andres BelloDiplom, Web development, Diplom, Web development at Duoc UC
Spanish, English, German
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Github Skills (95)
python10
storybook10
react-redux10
testing10
axios10
cjs10
component-library10
file-upload10
redux-router10
calculator10
javascript10
react-components10
react-component10
phone-number10
rebuild10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KaiHotz/jQuery-Drupal-Webform-Validation-Plugin
Sep 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:47 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
KaiHotz/React-Redux-Saga-Advanced-Starter
Oct 2017 - Jan 2022
Boilerplate for Advanced usage with React, Redux, React-Router-Redux, Redux-Saga, Immutable, Reselect, Recompose, Axios, HMR, Babel v7, Jest, Eslint, and more
Contributions:2 reviews, 92 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years 3 months
redux-sagajestsagajavasciptreact-router
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