Kyle Leighton
Founder at PawPlacer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Leighton is a Senior React engineer and founder based in New York with eight years of experience building high-performance, accessible web applications using TypeScript, Next.js, Remix, Tailwind and modern full‑stack tooling. He combines product-minded frontend expertise from roles at Kraken and Rightpoint with entrepreneurial execution—independently building PawPlacer end-to-end on Supabase, Remix and Vercel and driving 450+ pet adoptions and $35k+ in donations within three months. At Kraken he shipped mission-critical, high-traffic interfaces and secure workflows for crypto users, demonstrating a knack for performance and compliance under real-world constraints. Known for enforcing strict a11y standards and mentoring peers, he bridges design and engineering to deliver intuitive, scalable UIs. Fluent in Mandarin and with a background in Chinese language and economics, he brings rare cross-cultural communication skills that help when engaging partners and stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
International Chinese Language Program Summer 2014 Chinese Language and Culture Program Summer 2015, International Chinese Language Program Summer 2014 Chinese Language and Culture Program Summer 2015 at National Taiwan UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Chinese Language and Literature Economics and Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Chinese Language and Literature Economics and Psychology at Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
ajax6
xmlhttprequest6
javascript6
backend-api5
backend5
api4
shopify2
theme-development2
continuous-integration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kyleleighton/shopify-ci
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Continuous Integration for Shopify Theme Development
Contributions:82 PRs, 255 pushes, 53 branches in 5 months
shopify-themecontinuoustheme-developmentcontinuous-integrationshopify
kyleleighton/UnwiseConnect
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:156 pushes, 47 branches in 1 month
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