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Dennis Kang

@dekarst

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I build scalable full-stack systems, cloud-native architectures, and AI-powered production solutions.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build scalable, reliable production software, shape architecture and engineering practices, use AI-assisted development thoughtfully, and collaborate with distributed teams while mentoring other developers.

· Highly efficient full-stack software architect and engineer with over 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable, reliable, and high-performance software systems.

· Proven ability to apply modern technologies, cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and AI/LLM capabilities to turn complex ideas into production-ready solutions.

· Experienced technical leader with a strong background in system architecture, AI-assisted development, engineering best practices, and mentoring developers to build high-quality software.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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Self-Employed

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 8 months)

• Improved system performance and developer productivity through automation, observability, and engineering best practices.
• Designed scalable APIs and services to support evolving product requirements and business growth.
• Introduced automated testing and CI/CD practices to improve release quality and delivery speed.

Automation Observability Engineering Best Practices API Design Scalability CI CD AI Assisted Engineering

Senior Full Stack Developer

Lendistry

May 2021 - Jan 2022 (8 months)

• Designed the main architecture and developed whole features for the underwriter application and customer portal.
• Designed the test flows, wrote unit tests using Jest, and integrated e2e tests using Cypress, keeping 80% code coverage.
• Performed design and code reviews, shared knowledge, and contributed to system architecture design decisions.

Senior Full Stack Developer

PetalMD

Nov 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 3 months)

• Implemented new features, and participated in business decisions like prioritization of tasks and estimates for new features, and enhanced overall development process.
• Modernized the frontend on a legacy system to enable responsive layouts and mobile views on more than 30 pages.
• Improved local development environments and pipelines using Docker that mirrored production.

Senior Team Lead

Soldnest

Jun 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years 3 months)

• Produced product roadmaps and project plans and tracked progress while controlling performance metrics.
• Polished the web development workflow and drove initiatives for performant, well-tested code and an architecture that reduced redundancy.
• Analyzed implementation alternatives and implemented solutions with the development team.

Senior Software Engineer

Wayfair

Feb 2014 - May 2017 (3 years 3 months)

• Led the effort to create new and supercharge existing landing experiences for Storefront by covering everything from prototype to production.
• Worked closely with product, marketing, and architects to evolve UI/UX strategy, and build and maintain frontend technology roadmap.
• Built new features for the customer-facing websites as well as back-end to make it easier for our marketing team.

Web Developer

MicotTel

Oct 2012 - Jan 2014 (1 year 3 months)

• Collaborated with the team to design, structure, and implement new websites from scratch.
• Communicated extensively with users to define business needs and implement the appropriate solutions to automate previously manual functions.
• Redesigned the primary interfaces to incorporate new functionalities and refined the existing functionalities.