Akihiro Okuno
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Scalar, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAkihiro Okuno is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Tokyo with 13 years of experience designing high-performance, reliable data systems and distributed transaction platforms. He led the creation of ScalarDB Analytics to enable analytical queries over transactional data and has built large-scale data pipelines and query systems handling hundreds of servers and hundreds of GiB/day. His background spans startups and research—CTO of a medical AI startup applying ML to MRI for dementia, lead engineering roles in ad tech and financial ledger systems, and a PhD-level research stint at the University of Tokyo. Akihiro combines deep academic understanding of storage, query and transaction processing with a practical focus on production operability and long-term architecture. He is notable for bridging experimental research and shipping robust, scalable products that meet real-world business needs.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoMaster's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at 東京工業大学 / Tokyo Institute of Technology
Github Skills (135)
transaction10
postgresql10
vim10
lua10
lunarvim10
dynamodb10
database10
cassandra10
oracle-database10
git-workflow10
partitioning10
vscode10
amazon-aurora10
ide10
terminal-emulator10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
choplin/choplin.github.io
Sep 2015 - Jun 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
scalar-labs/scalardb-analytics-postgresql
Dec 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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