Summary
Chiyo Nishio is a bilingual (EN/JP) software developer based in Nagoya with nine years of experience building backend systems and resilient microservices. She has shipped greenfield and maintenance work across startups and fintech, notably leading backend development for the MUSEUM app and contributing to high-availability crypto trading infrastructure. Proficient in Go, Node.js, Java, and cloud-native tooling (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), she specializes in API design, image-processing pipelines, and payment integrations. She’s practiced in improving engineering practices—CI/CD, static analysis, and clean architecture—and has led ops teams and hiring interviews. As a former English teacher with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Music, she brings clear communication and cross-cultural collaboration to distributed teams. Now freelancing, she combines product-minded engineering with practical deployment experience to turn ambiguous requirements into production-grade services.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons), Mathematics, Music, with Distinction, Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons), Mathematics, Music, with Distinction at Queen's University
English, Japanese