Kai Salmon
Senior Software Engineer at Shuffle
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Salmon is a Senior Software Engineer and hands-on engineering manager based in London with a decade of experience building full-stack systems using TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Rust, and React. He blends a 60:40 split of leadership and coding, having led a team through HeadBox’s first NYC product launch that now generates significant recurring revenue and high event demand. Kai has driven practical hiring reforms, authored engineering handbooks to streamline onboarding, and advanced GraphQL beyond a REST lift-and-shift into code-generated, graph-native APIs. Now at Shuffle, he continues to pair delivery-focused management with deep technical contributions, particularly around API design and developer experience. He’s comfortable moving between startups and freelance projects, bringing a pragmatic, outcome-oriented approach and an appetite for tooling and architecture improvements that reduce cognitive load for teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Hollyfield SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Gothenburg
Swedish
Github Skills (37)
multithreading10
elm10
asmjs10
rust-wasm9
jsx9
concurrency9
rust9
emscripten9
webassembly8
traits7
single-page7
svg-files7
authentication7
svg7
web-framework7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kaisalmon/proceduralPuzzle
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
Typescript program generating puzzles procedurally
Contributions:96 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 3 months
puzzlestwinejavascripttypescript
kaisalmon/kmnky_traits
Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
Stonehearth mod adding new traits
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
modminecrafttraits
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