Summary
Daisuke Kajiwara is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 17 years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations and digital transformation across media, gaming, and consumer entertainment. Currently Executive Officer & CTO at GENDA Inc., he drives group-wide technology strategy across 800 locations and 40+ acquired companies, building unified data platforms (Databricks/dbt/Delta Lake) and company-wide AI initiatives from prize allocation to foot-traffic analytics. He has a track record of scaling teams and systems as a former CTO of Every Inc. and long-tenured engineering leader at GREE, where he oversaw development for high-traffic social and mobile game platforms. Known for combining hands-on technical fluency in TypeScript, Python, SQL and cloud platforms with pragmatic M&A-focused PMI frameworks, he also champions engineering culture, hiring, and external technical branding. An active voice in Japan’s CTO community and speaker at industry conferences, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to turning continuous M&A and complex legacy estates into data- and AI-enabled businesses.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer