Leighton Kaina
Software Engineer at GetInsured
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeighton Kaina is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building web and mobile applications, currently contributing to Workday from San Francisco. He brings deep front-end expertise from a senior role at GetInsured where he created dynamic form builders, a reusable Angular component library, and a gesture-friendly Ionic mobile shopping experience. Leighton’s background blends practical software engineering with quantitative rigor from prior research roles at Geltner Associates and MIT Center for Real Estate, where he developed econometric index tooling and automation. That mix of data-minded problem solving and UI-focused delivery lets him translate complex domain requirements into user-friendly, maintainable systems. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MA in Economics from Tufts, a combination that informs both his technical design and analytical approach. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who favors reusable abstractions that reduce future developer dependency.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMA, Economics, MA, Economics at Tufts University
Japanese
Github Skills (3)
react2
react-native1
geolocation1
Github contributions (5)
lkaina/donator
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 month
lkaina/pW
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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