Kirsten Kai
Freelance Product Designer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKirsten Kai is a Full Stack Developer and freelance product designer with eight years of industry experience building user-centered web applications. She currently develops core features and reusable React components for Lighthouse Registry’s MVP, pairing TypeScript APIs with Figma-driven UX to help financial professionals prevent elder financial abuse. Her background spans backend tooling, automated customer workflows, and frontend redesigns, and she brings prior experience in Elixir/Phoenix alongside a strong JavaScript/Node.js stack. Comfortable in agile, cross-functional teams, Kirsten combines hands-on coding with product thinking—she has translated competitive analysis and ROI-focused go-to-market plans into tangible prototypes. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and people-oriented, and she’s actively building solutions that prioritize trust and real-world impact.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Accelerated Front End Development, Certificate, Accelerated Front End Development at Juno College of TechnologyDiploma, Full Stack Web Development, Diploma, Full Stack Web Development at Lighthouse Labs
Github Skills (20)
git10
github10
patch10
subversion10
hero8
kitchen8
displays8
mongoose8
mongodb6
react5
nodejs5
redux5
full-stack5
javascript4
postgresql3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kirstenkai/scheduler
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
A single-page application built using React
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
single-pagereactjsreactsingle-page-application
kirstenkai/ip-address-tracker
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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