Hi, I’m Kam

I build SaaS products and Web apps.

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer and Technical Lead in Kobe, Japan, I love creating delightful digital products using Ruby on Rails and AWS, with a fondness for good UI/UX.

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Projects I've worked on

Clients and Employers

Services

Strategy & Direction

I can help you analyse business problems and advise technologies and software solutions to solve them.

Software Development

As a full stack developer, I can bring designs and prototypes to life using Ruby on Rails and front end Javascript libraries.

Technical Review

Leveraging my 25 year history in building software, I can conduct technical reviews for code quality and development process improvements.

Résumé

Work Experience

Alkhemy

CTO

Dec 2010 - Current

As CTO, I helped it grow from a small startup to a multi million dollar company with over 30 staff. Along the way I've led a team of engineers to build a dashboarding and analytics SaaS, setup a 30 person on-premise call centre, built an event tracking and data pipeline capable of handling thousands of RPS, and applied machine learning to optimise marketing spend.

Culture Byte

Freelance Developer

Sep 2006 - Current

Over the years I have developed websites and web applications for small businesses, startups and not for profits such as SoundSpace and the Neue Geographical Society.

iProperty

Senior Ruby Developer

Mar 2007 - Dec 2010

Built a Real Estate SaaS to manage properties, inspections, vendors and tenants that served over 400 real estate agencies in Australia; one of Australia's first large scale Ruby on Rails projects.

Of my own initiative, I turned the website development arm of the business from a loss leader to high profitability by developing a hierarchical, multi-tenant CMS using Ruby that sharply decreased costs in building new real estate websites and property portals.

MonikerWear

Co-Founder

Jan 2007 - Jan 2019

Technical Lead for a Business and Formal wear online store. Created an interactive Flash application allowing customisation of every part of a Shirt or Suit and visualise it before purchase.

Gulfnet Communications

Senior Manager (Software)

Apr 2002 - Apr 2006

Lead developer/architect of the Applications Group building web and desktop software such as instant messaging clients, intranets and POS systems for Japanese retail stores.

Cambridge Technology Partners/Novell

Senior Developer

Dec 1997 - Apr 2002

Helped to build the Australian Yellow and White pages online search engines using Java and C. Also provided Systems Integration consulting in industries such as Telecommunications, Higher Education and Retail.

Development Skills

Languages

Ruby

Javascript

HTML / CSS

Elixir

Python

Currently learning Swift

Tools

Webflow / Squarespace / Shopify / Spree

Postgresql

Heroku / Cloud66

Amazon Web Services / Digital Ocean

Twilio / Aircall

Salesforce / Zoho

Industries

Education

Real Estate

Sales & Marketing

Fashion / Retail

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What Clients and Colleagues have to say ...

Several years after our departures from iProperty, Khamsouk remains a loyal and inspiring colleague that truly has his finger on the pulse of emerging web technology.

Kam is business savvy and his input on projects from a marketing, design, development and business perspective demonstrates that his overall view in the digital realm transcends typical programmers.

Having developed numerous large scale Ruby web applications and content management systems, I recommend Kam to anyone after a solid technical lead, Ruby expert and/or front end web developer.  He's a pretty cool guy to have a chat with too.

Adrian Fisse

General Manager@Fisse Design

Amazing job Kam, thank you for all your creative, prompt, professional and efficient work

Our site was developed with complete ease and in a timely manner. Any request or question was always addressed and attended to.If you require any web development Kam is a must for any business

Trent Ludlow

CEO @Coastline Property Advisors

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