Kaijah Hougham
Senior Software Engineer at SendCutSend.com
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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SeniorKaijah Hougham is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, event-driven systems and developer-friendly APIs across startups and scaleups. Based in Reno, NV, she has a track record of architecting HIPAA-compliant healthcare integrations, LLM-powered support platforms, and large microservice ecosystems using TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and AWS serverless patterns. Kaijah excels at lifting teams—mentoring engineers, collaborating with designers and stakeholders, and improving developer experience through semantic GraphQL and performance-focused refactors. She repeatedly turns legacy stacks into modern, maintainable platforms (PHP → Next.js, legacy REST → GraphQL/NestJS) and has shipped integrations with major ecommerce and logistics providers. Notably, she led an AWS Bedrock-based support system that removed the need for an external CS team during a critical growth phase, demonstrating a blend of technical depth and business impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
lru8
thread8
jruby6
foundation2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Seberius/lru_redux
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:40 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
lruthreadcachesafelru-cache
Seberius/cache_lib
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:36 pushes, 4 branches, 2 tags in 27 days
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