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Kai Nakamura

Junior Software Engineer
Seattle, WA, United States

Professional Summary

Junior Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience building reliable web products and internal tools with TypeScript, React, and Python. Delivers measurable gains through thoughtful testing, observability, and close collaboration with product and design teams. Excited to contribute clean code and customer-focused problem solving in a fast-moving Seattle engineering organization.

Employment History

Junior Software Engineer
Cascadia Cloud Systems · Seattle, WA
Jun, 2024 · Present
• Shipped 8 customer-facing TypeScript and React features for a cloud cost-management platform used by 12,000+ monthly users. • Reduced API p95 latency 34% by profiling PostgreSQL queries, adding Redis caching, and introducing targeted indexes. • Increased release confidence with 120+ Jest and Playwright tests and GitHub Actions checks, cutting escaped defects 28% quarter over quarter. • Partnered with product and design to turn discovery notes into accessible UI, improving onboarding completion 17%.
Software Engineering Intern
Northwest Data Cooperative · Bellevue, WA
Jun, 2023 · May, 2024
• Built Python FastAPI services and React dashboards that automated weekly reporting for 40+ enterprise accounts. • Improved data pipeline reliability from 96.2% to 99.7% by adding schema validation, retries, and actionable monitoring. • Collaborated in a four-person Scrum team to deliver 14 roadmap stories, documenting APIs and pairing with two new interns.
Software Developer Assistant
University of Washington Information School · Seattle, WA
Sep, 2022 · Jun, 2023
• Maintained student-services tools in JavaScript and Node.js, serving 2,500+ students across three academic programs. • Created reusable data-cleanup scripts that cut monthly administrative work by 10 hours and improved report accuracy. • Wrote setup guides and hosted weekly office hours, helping five student contributors make their first open-source pull requests.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science
University of Washington · Seattle, WA
Sep, 2019 · Jun, 2023
• GPA: 3.7/4.0; Dean’s List, 2021–2023 • Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Databases, Software Engineering • Capstone: Built a privacy-first transit accessibility planner with a five-person team

Skills

TypeScript
React
Python
PostgreSQL
Docker