Douglas Kitagawa
Software Engineer at Nintendo
Toyohashi, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Kitagawa is a software engineer with 8 years of experience blending game development, backend systems and full-stack web work, currently based in Toyohashi, Japan. He has shipped features and localization for multiple Nintendo titles and built a custom server-side language that significantly improved latency and maintainability at Gravity Interactive. Proficient in Python, JavaScript, C/C++, Lua and SQL, he’s actively sharpening front-end skills via freeCodeCamp while freelancing on full-stack projects. Multilingual (English, Portuguese, learning Spanish and Japanese) and experienced as a teacher and tech lead, he brings strong communication and mentoring abilities to cross-cultural teams. Unusually, he pairs game-design intuition and audio engineering background with production-grade engineering—useful for user-experience and interactive product work.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Audio Engineering, Bachelor's degree Audio Engineering at Berklee College of MusicBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Impacta TecnologiaBachelor's degree Audio Engineering, Bachelor's degree Audio Engineering at Dubspot
Portuguese, English, Spanish, latim, Japanese
Github Skills (2)
server6
management5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sdkitagawa/sdkitagawa
Dec 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
sdkitagawa/moogle_manager
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Moogle Manager is a bot primarily developed for The Legend of DK and Friends. Moogle Manager also comes with enhanced moderation tools to help manage your Discord server!
Contributions:3 PRs, 49 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
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