Kyler Ray
Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer | SaaS Platform Architect | React/Next.js, Node.js, AWS, Python
8 yrs experience · Meridian, ID · 30-40 hrs/week
About
Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer based in Meridian, Idaho with a proven track record building and scaling SaaS platforms for web and mobile environments. Expertise across React, React Native, Flutter, TypeScript, and Python; strong foundations in API design, data modeling, authentication, and AWS cloud deployments. Experienced in greenfield builds, legacy modernization, and delivering scalable systems prioritizing clarity, maintainability, and long-term evolution. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, translate business goals into technical roadmaps, and drive delivery velocity.
Skills
Experience
- Senior Software Engineer · Nike01-01-2024 – 12-01-2025
Designed and scaled enterprise microservices powering high-traffic systems in a cross-functional Agile environment. Drove API performance optimization, implemented Kafka-based event-driven architecture for real-time data processing, and led a mid-level engineering team with coding standards and reviews. Architected containerized services on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes; built CI/CD pipelines, cutting deployment cycles by 50%. Developed React-based financial dashboards and managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform. Collaborated across product, QA, and DevOps to improve delivery velocity and reliability.
- Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer · Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc.10-01-2021 – 09-01-2023
Led end-to-end delivery of web and SaaS products from discovery through deployment. Built full-stack applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Next.js, and Node.js; integrated third-party APIs, payments, and internal tools. Implemented AI-powered features to streamline client workflows and translated business goals into technical roadmaps. Set up CI/CD, observability, and SRE practices to ensure stability and scalability.
- Software Engineer – Cloud & Infrastructure Systems · CompuNet, Inc.02-01-2018 – 08-01-2021
Designed and maintained enterprise-grade full-stack systems for networking, cloud, and security. Built dashboards and automation to simplify deployment, monitoring, and reporting. Refactored critical components to improve reliability and performance; contributed to POCs and proposals for key clients; collaborated with solution architects and engineers to integrate software with infrastructure and third-party platforms.
Education
- Boise State UniversityMaster of Science, Computational Science
- Boise State UniversityBachelor of Science, Computational Science
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