Jamie Kite
Engineering Manager at Figma
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Kite is an engineering manager with a decade of experience leading teams and products at high-growth companies including Figma, Calm, Stripe, and GitHub, specializing in scaling technical systems and organizations. They combine hands-on engineering background across Ruby, Clojure, Java and web development with people-first leadership, mentoring engineers and shaping architecture and processes to deliver measurable product outcomes. Jamie’s career moves—from early web and Mac-focused roles to senior engineering posts at developer- and product-centric firms—reflect a rare blend of practitioner depth and strategic product orientation. Based in Durham, NC, they are comfortable translating complex technical trade-offs into clear roadmaps and metrics, and bring an unusual interdisciplinary perspective from earlier studies in law and social fields that informs thoughtful stakeholder engagement.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Law & American Society, Women's Studies, Law & American Society, Women's Studies at Florida Atlantic UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (2)
ruby-on-rails6
react3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RiiggedMPGH/Owl-Realms-Source
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
RiiggedMPGH/RiiggedMPGH.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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