Kayla Benson
I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building full-stack SaaS applications across healthcare, retail, work automation, and AI-powered platforms.
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I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building full-stack SaaS applications across healthcare, retail, work automation, and AI-powered platforms.
I engineer scalable web products using TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, GraphQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Prisma ORM, and Tailwind CSS. I integrate AI capabilities, real-time communications, payments, and third-party APIs to reduce manual work and increase reliability. I own features from planning through production release while focusing on performance, maintainability, testing quality, and user experience across distributed teams.
- 11 years' experience
- Joined June 2026
Industry experience
- Healthcare
- Retail
- Software & Internet
- Professional Services
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Work experience· 4 roles
Architect and maintain AI-powered SaaS applications across 3 business domains using React.js, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Prisma ORM, and Tailwind CSS.
Built healthcare SaaS applications using React.js, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Prisma ORM, and Tailwind CSS across 6 product areas, including scheduling, patient documents, and clinical work. Created backend APIs for patient intake, provider availability, appointment orchestration, access control, and healthcare operations. Implemented HIPAA-conscious patterns including secure API access, audit trails, encrypted data handling, and role-based dashboards across 3+ protected work types. Optimized frontend performance by improving data fetching and reducing re-renders, applying caching patterns across multiple portals.
Developed retail and e-commerce platform features using React.js, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and REST APIs across 5 operational areas: catalog, inventory, orders, dashboards, and admin tools. Delivered backend services for product search, customer account management, reporting, order tracking, and operational work. Connected payment processing, order status updates, user notifications across 4 business workflows. Translated Figma designs into responsive, accessible interfaces across 10+ customer-facing and internal admin screens. Refactored legacy components, standardized API response patterns, and strengthened error handling to improve maintainability and release velocity.
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