Kai Wells
Founding Software Engineer at ExploreTech
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Wells is a founding software engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable, secure systems across healthcare and enterprise platforms. Currently leading ExploreTech as Founding Software Engineer, he blends hands-on development with architectural leadership to ship reliable, interoperable services. At GRAIL, he spearheaded telemedicine integrations, championed event-driven and distributed saga architectures, and boosted API and data processing performance by 10x while mentoring on the Architectural Review Board. His background spans secure cloud infrastructure, data systems for business analytics, and automated workflow tooling, highlighting a talent for turning complex requirements into production-ready solutions. Based in San Diego, he holds a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from UIUC and completed UCSD Extension’s Full Stack Web Development program, underscoring a strong technical foundation and practical delivery mindset.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Coding Boot Camp, Full Stack Web Development, Coding Boot Camp, Full Stack Web Development at UC San Diego ExtensionUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (59)
ios9
kinetic9
lint9
lang9
macos9
swift9
rust8
command-line-tool8
cli8
monte-carlo8
linux8
statistics8
objective-c8
linter8
simulation7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
quells/LennardJonesGo
Jan 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches, 3 tags in 6 years 2 months
quells/klox
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Kotlin implementation of a Lox interpreter
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
kotlininterpreterloxlox-interpreter
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