Kanoa Haley is a Staff Software Developer based in Waterloo, Ontario with 11 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile systems, currently leading engineering work at Mappedin. He specializes in React front-ends and JavaScript/TypeScript back ends (Node, Express) and has deep experience across databases like MongoDB, Postgres and Redis, plus OAuth/SAML authentication systems. Kanoa is an early adopter of Kotlin for Android and also brings uncommon low-level expertise in embedded C and assembly on RISC architectures, which informs robust systems thinking. He has repeatedly improved platform performance and developer velocity—examples include halving compile times and dramatically reducing bundle sizes, and redesigning analytics and auth platforms to scale across hundreds of accounts. Kanoa maintains a technical blog at katoa.tech and combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Guelph
Contributions:54 commits, 8 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 month
reactexpressjsweb-basedexpressexpress-server
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Kanoa Haley - Staff Software Developer at Mappedin