Summary
Kiere El-shafie is an experienced software engineer and technical founder with over 17 years delivering scalable SaaS products across healthcare, staffing, construction, and intelligence sectors. He co-founded Kamana, grew it into a compliance-focused staffing platform used by 100+ agencies and 100,000+ professionals, and led its post-acquisition engineering as VP/Director through major cost and data consolidation wins. Comfortable both as sole developer and as a leader of multi-team engineering organizations, he specializes in event-driven systems, resilient cloud architectures, and practical AI/LLM integrations for regulated industries. As an independent consultant he continues to cut cloud costs, shepherd Rails migrations, and ship AI-powered features on Elixir and Ruby stacks. Based in Richmond, VA, he blends hands-on implementation with mentorship and a talent for turning messy legacy data into unified, production-ready schemas.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech