Chris Gerpheide
CTO at Migaku
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolChris Gerpheide is a Tokyo-based CTO and data-driven software leader with 13 years of experience building large-scale, reliable software and ML systems across startups and hyperscale companies. He has led engineering teams at Google Translate/Search, AWS WorkMail, and multiple startups, scaling teams, processes, and architectures from rule-based to deep-learning solutions. Known for blending hands-on system design (Java, C++, frontend) with people development, he has repeatedly grown and promoted engineering teams while owning product-facing technical decisions. He holds an MSc cum laude in Computer Science from TU Eindhoven and brings a practical research mindset—having optimized backend systems to cut resource use in production and driven transitions that moved products into ML-first directions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics and Political Science, 3.2/4, B.A., Mathematics and Political Science, 3.2/4 at Grinnell CollegeMSc cum laude with Honors, Computer Science and Engineering, Graduation project: 10/10, MSc cum laude with Honors, Computer Science and Engineering, Graduation project: 10/10 at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
English, Greek, Spanish, Dutch, JapaneseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
phoxicle/DutchCrazyTime
Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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